In the following questions, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

Language, they say, is the __(1)___ through which human beings perceive the world. If so, English is perhaps the most __(2)___ lens through which to see animals. It has ___(3)__ a cross eyed view of birds, beasts, fish and fowl. The very word “animal” can __(4)___ the brutish and the sensual. Animal ___(5)__ imply baseness and vulgarity.