53. It was out of ______ that Professor Green, the author of several highly respected books in his field, described himself to his colleagues as ______ .
A. embarrassment, a paragon
B. magnanimity, an avenger
C. insolence, a pedant
D. egotism, an apprentice
E. modesty, a dilettante
54. Historian Carlo Botta often contradicted himself, as when he first championed and then ______ the idealism of the French Revolution.
A. invoked
B. investigated
C. conceive
D. conveted
E. denounced