Pg 317 (329) - Q7
This is a situation where you are dealing with aggressive autograph seekers. So, there's going to be a negative there. The only two possible answers would be A decried, or E, vilified. Decried means to recognize the wrongness of something by calling it out verbally. Here we have someone distinguished enough to merit such ______. Well, that would be adulation. Adulation is almost adoration, or almost love. So, the answer here would be A.