In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.

Sentence 1:On systems or services using NTLM authentication , users ' passwords are never sent in cleartext over the wire . Sentence 2:Instead , they are provided to the requesting system , like a domain controller , as a hash in a response to a challenge - response authentication scheme .
instead

Sentence 1:Vallejo's work would see her decorated by the city government and she would make an unsuccessful bid for the office of Mayor of Guayaquil . Sentence 2:However , her candidacy gave her a media platform that Vallejo used to created public service announcements and hold talk shows .
however

Sentence 1:Thompson , if selected , would have been the first African - American ever to head the Justice Department . Sentence 2:Instead , Alberto Gonzales was selected as Ashcroft 's replacement .
instead