Some sentence completions I don't get

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<li> He always spoke with a __________ tone that invested even the most _________ conversations with a faint sense of illicitness</li>
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<p>A. conspiratinoal… innocuous
B. thoughtful… virtuous
C. guilty… nefarious
D. candid… meandering
E. Menacing… truculent</p>

<p>I don’t get it… correct answer is A</p>

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<p>Already famous for becoming _________ at the slightest criticism, the director surpassed himself by the _______ of his anger at the nearly unanimous panning of his latest film.</p>

<p>A. remorseful… ferocity
B. vengeful… complacency
C. Incensed… vehemence
D. obsequious… malevolence
E. dejected… alacrity</p>

<h2>answer is C. what the heck is incensed??</h2>

<p>although the poet’s status as a modernist master is by now all but _____<strong><em>, her unsavory politics continue to </em></strong> many who study her works today</p>

<p>A. canonical… berate
B. incontrovertible… trouble
C. undeclared… instigate
D. hypothetical… polarize
E. inconclusive… provoke</p>

<p>Anwer is B… whaaa</p>

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<p>see bolded…</p>

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<p>what does conspirational mean? dictionary,.com says joint effort, which doesn’t fit…</p>

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<p>^well, I chose A as well. Conspiratorial…I thought of a ‘conspiracy’…and illicitness means something like ‘illegal’. So, he spoke with a sort of ‘hiding something from you’ tone that made even most harmless conversations seems ‘illegal’.</p>

<p>You don’t need to know exact definitions, just kind go with the flow.</p>

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<p>wooow. dictionary.com says that “conspiracy” is the obsolete definition of conspirational. how lame college board. tsk tsk</p>

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where does it say that?</p>

<p>all words ending in -al are either nouns meaning “the act of” <a href=“denial”>present participle of a verb</a></p>

<p>or adjectives meaning “of or related to” (autumnal)</p>

<p>since all the choices’ first blank is an adjective, conspirational here (as with everywhere else) means “of a conspiracy.”</p>