Select the correct option: Without her prompt intervention, the discussion might well have ___ into an acrimonious stalemate.

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1. Read the sentence: it says the talk could have turned into a worse state without her help.

2. **Devolved** fits because it means to sink or pass into a worse or lower state.

3. Other choices don't fit: **abstained** = refused to vote, **emerged** = came out, **ejected** = thrown out.

4. So the best word is **devolved**.

FINAL_ANSWER: b

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