Once the candidate established herself as the clear frontrunner, it took but a brief interlude in the clamor for all her erstwhile (i)____________ to gather around her and to begin loudly proclaiming their (ii)____________. It seemed, in other words, to cause these newcomers not an iota of discomfort to behave in a manner that a casual observer might have characterized as (iii)____________ outright hypocrisy. A. factotums B. reputability C. tantamount to D. detractors E. magnanimity F. reciprocal with G. zealots H. fealty I. hinging on