Though the recent row between the much loved prime minister and the ambassador from the erstwhile colonial power will, in all likelihood, not foment outright protests--the way an incursion by this same foreign power into the country’s airspace did--surely such discord will only serve to further ?a people long since wary of foreign influence.
a. gall
b. disabuse
c. demean
d. debase
e. rankle
f. marginalize