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DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!
The novel's protagonist, a pearl driver, naively expects that the buyers will compete among themselves to pay him the best price for his pearl, but instead they ____ to ____ him.
A) venture, reward
B) pretend, praise
C) conspire, reimburse
D) refuse, cheat
E) collude, swindle
What is ... E; collude and swindle.