The following question has a sentence with two blanks. Given below the sentence are four pairs of words. Choose the pair that best completes the sentence.The Hollow Men remains a ________performance, at once _______ immediate and yet strangely abstracted, resistant to commentary in a way that the achievements that precede and follow it, The Waste Land and Four Quartets, are not, whatever their difficulties.confounding; viscerallybreathtaking ; intrinsicallydisconcerting; fortuitouslyloquacious; palpably
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The following question has a sentence with two blanks. Given below the sentence are four pairs of words. Choose the pair that best completes the sentence.The Hollow Men remains a ________performance, at once _______ immediate and yet strangely abstracted, resistant to commentary in a way that the achievements that precede and follow it, The Waste Land and Four Quartets, are not, whatever their difficulties.confounding; viscerallybreathtaking ; intrinsicallydisconcerting; fortuitouslyloquacious; palpably
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The best pair of words to complete the sentence would be "confounding; viscerally". The sentence would read: "The Hollow Men remains a confounding performance, at once viscerally immediate and yet strangely abstracted, resistant to commentary in a way that the achievements that precede and follow it, The Waste Land and Four Quartets, are not, whatever their difficulties."
This choice is the most fitting because "confounding" means confusing or perplexing, which aligns with the description of the performance as being "strangely abstracted" and "resistant to commentary". "Viscerally" means in a way that is based on deep feeling and emotional reactions, which fits with the description of the performance as being "immediate". The other options do not fit as well contextually with the sentence.
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