“someone who feels that passionately about the issue must guard against just criticism of the opposition becoming mere or character assassination,”
she reminded me pointedly.

tell me what kind of word i'm looking for (the sentence doesn't make sense to me)
or jest tell me which best fits.

choices: accrue annotation bedlam covert debonair dun efficacious equanimity fortuitous gist gratuitous imperious invective motley munificent procrastinate provocative recondite reprobate sedentary

an old person

explanation:

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.