Though surprising, it is __________ that Rupesh has not got the job by _______ of his parents' political connections.

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- Step 1: Understand the sentence meaning
  - The sentence conveys surprise and asserts a fact about why Rupesh did not get the job.
- Step 2: Required senses
  - The first blank needs a word meaning "actually so" or "a fact": $true$ fits this.
  - The second blank needs an idiomatic prepositional phrase meaning "because of"; the noun $virtue$ completes the idiom "by virtue of" (meaning "by means of" or "because of").
- Step 3: Fit the words into the sentence
  - Completed sentence: "Though surprising, it is $true$ that Rupesh has not got the job by $virtue$ of his parents' political connections."
- Conclusion: Both words form a grammatical and semantically correct phrase that matches the intended meaning and idiom of the sentence.
FINAL_ANSWER: d

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