Help me understand this TC problem

There has been a tendency among art historians not so much to revise as to eliminate the concept of the Renaissance - to ________ not only its uniqueness, but its very existence.

A) explain
B) extol
C) transmute
D) regret
E) contest

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Answer: Contest

Explanation: It says art historians are attempting to eliminate renaissance. This essentially means that they are trying to say that it never existed (contest it’s existence)