TEAS Reading Comprehension Practice Test 3

If a person was inclined to succumb to flattery, people who wished to take advantage of him would naturally flatter him.
Among the choices for the second missing word, it is only “cajolery” and “blandishments” which mean flattery. But the pair word of “blandishments; namely resistant,” would result in a self-contradictory sentence. So, “susceptible; cajolery” isthe answer.