Although the administration repeatedly threatened to use its authority in order to bully the student protesters into submission, they refused to be intimated.
Sentence completions test the skill to use the information observed in complex and incomplete sentences in order to correctly complete them.
It tests a candidate's vocabulary power and skill to follow the logic of sentences.
Now, in context of the passage so followed, only the option D makes the most sense and fits in the sentence perfectly.
Hence, bully (option D) is the correct fill for the blank.
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