The installation does not illustrate an idea so much as it [1]____ it, giving abstract grief the weight of a physical thing. Critics call this quality an [2]____: a density of material that will not resolve into symbols — not a refusal of beauty, and nothing to do with machines or conditions. Its subject is [3]____, the deprivation left behind when the mills closed and no relief ever arrived. The loss it records remains [4]____: no audit can measure what a street loses when its work disappears. So the work survives only as a [5]____, a shape that appears and vanishes before it can be fixed in place. What should come in the place of blank number [1]?

Subject: English Language | Topic: Cloze Test | Difficulty: MEDIUM

Options

1. (A) extinguishes
2. (B) evacuates
3. (C) reifies
4. (D) dissimulates

Verified Answer

Option (C): reifies

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