After being defeated in 2007, the Australian Liberal party needed to find a leader who could return them to power; they hope that the current leader, a social conservative who leads the opposition on a number of issues, including stem cell research and carbon trading, and who wrote a book with the telling title Battlelines, may be the man for the job.
a. compliant
b. circumspect
c. diffident
d. pugnacious
e. milquetoast
f. disputatious