What does the author mean by "nowadays the moralist risks seeming at odds with morality"?
Mattancherry is Indian Jewry's most famous settlement. Its pretty streets of pastel coloured houses, connected by first-floor passages and home to the last twelve saree-and-sarong-wearing, white-skinned Indian Jews are visited by thousands of tourists each year. Its synagogue, built in 1568, with a floor of blue and white China tiles, a carpet given by Haile Selassie and the frosty Yaheh selling tickets at the door, stands as an images of religious tolerance.
We were not successful in defusing (A) / diffusing (B) the guru's idea. The students baited (A) / bated (B) the instructor with irrelevant questions. The hoard (A) / horde (B) rushed into the campus. The prisoner's interment (A) / internment (B) came to an end with his early release. The hockey team could not deal with his unsociable (A) / unsocial (B) tendencies.