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Choose the option which best replaces the given group of words.

The practice of gaining advantage through flattery or excessive compliance

The correct answer is

Sycophancy

Sycophancy is obsequious behaviour — flattering or fawning on influential people to win favour or advantage. A person who does this is a sycophant.

Normativity is the quality of setting norms or standards; equivocation is using vague, evasive language to avoid commitment; consequentialism is the ethical theory that judges actions by their results.

Only sycophancy describes winning advantage through flattery and excessive compliance.

Hence, the answer is Sycophancy.

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