'Immense' (great) creates a contrast with 'modest life' through the word 'despite', making the sentence logically coherent.

Ameliorate means to make something better or improve. Options A, C, and D all suggest negative changes.

Pragmatic means practical and realistic. Idealistic (based on ideals rather than reality) is its opposite.

The main clause is 'The government has announced new policies to combat inflation'. The relative clause 'which affects millions of citizens' is subordinate.

Collective nouns like 'team' are singular and take singular verbs. 'The team is' is correct, not 'are'.

This is Third Conditional (If + Past Perfect, would have + past participle), expressing an unreal past situation.

'Raised eyebrows' is an idiom meaning to cause surprise, doubt, or disapproval. It doesn't literally refer to eyebrows.

'Distinctive' means characteristic or unique, fitting the context. 'Ubiquitous' means everywhere; 'ephemeral' means temporary; 'pedestrian' means ordinary.

'Garnered' means to gather or accumulate. Here it means the phenomenon has attracted/gathered significant attention.

'The report' is the subject (singular), so it should be 'was submitted'. Phrases like 'along with' don't change the subject number.