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Zorluk: OrtaCollocation and Idiomatic Fit

Which word or idiomatic phrase correctly completes the blank in the sentence below?

Cevap:Although the committee chair advocated for a more streamlined administrative hierarchy, several members warned that such drastic centralization would be fundamentally 【inimical to】 the collaborative spirit that had historically sustained the research institute.

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inimical to
The contrast signal 'Although' signals an opposing viewpoint between the chair's proposal and the members' warnings. The blank requires an expression meaning 'harmful to' or 'adverse to' that idiomatically pairs with the preposition 'to'. The phrase 'inimical to' satisfies both the semantic need for opposition and the standard idiomatic rule of English prepositional complementation.

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1
Analyze the structural signals and logical pivot in the sentence.
The initial concession word 'Although' sets up a contrast between the chair's intentions (streamlining) and the members' concerns (warning against centralization).
Understanding the structural shift helps determine whether a positive, neutral, or negative relationship is being described.
2
Determine the required contextual meaning and idiomatic preposition.
Since members are warning about a potential threat to collaboration, the missing phrase must convey harm, opposition, or hostility, and it must idiomatically govern the preposition 'to'.
Standard academic collocations require precise pairing between adjective modifiers and their prepositional complements.
3
Select the proper idiomatic collocation.
'inimical to' (or 'detrimental to') perfectly matches both the negative contrast required by the context and the correct prepositional complement 'to'.
Phrases like 'inimical with' or 'inimical of' represent non-standard usage that violates English idiomatic conventions.

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Prepositional Collocations and Structural Contrast Clues
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Collocation and Idiomatic Fit

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