Lightroom 5.3 Hierarchy in keywording.

I am using Lightroom 5.3 on Win7 x64. I am having problem during hierarchy in key wording.
As shown in A, sometimes it does auto completes but as shown in B many times it doesn’t and manual entry is needed. People have mention on adobe forum it shouldn’t be working but its working sometimes.
Anyone had same issue. – How you manage same ?

In general, when there is only one keyword with a given leaf name, LR will suppress the ancestor keywords when auto-completing and when displaying the keyword.  In your example, there are two keywords with the leaf name "AEPL", so when you're typing the keyword, autocomplete will give you the choice of selecting between the keywords ("AEPL < Places" and "AEPL < People").  But since there is just one keyword with the leaf name "Flower" ("Flower < Style"), LR supresses the ancestors ("< Style").   But when you enter "Flower", you are in fact selecting the keyword "Flower < Style".   You can verify this by selecting the image's thumbnail and then examing the Keyword List pane -- you'll see that "Style > Flower" has a checkmark next to it.

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