DIRECTIONS: ​In the passage given below there are 5 blanks, each followed by a word given in bold. Each blank has four alternative words given in options (1), (2), (3) and (4). You have to tell which word will best suit the respective blank. Mark (5) as your answer if the word given in bold after the blank is your answer i.e., No change required.

The free movement of people, goods, ideas, and services across borders — globalization — has allowed for efficiencies of scale and technological _______ [commitments] (A) that helped improve the lives of billions. Most people have never known a world in which globalization wasn’t _____ [synonymous] (B) with the word “progress”. As the last three years of geopolitical chaos and _____ [retreat] (C) of populism have made clear, there have been plenty who have been left behind by globalization — or at least feel like they have. That has been true of the middle and working classes of the world’s advanced industrial countries, who see the _____ [deposition] (D) of a new global middle class in Asia and Latin America as coming at the cost of their own well-being. For the first time, the momentum behind globalization is starting to _____ [articulate] (E).