سوال ۲ کنکور ارشد مهندسی کامپیوتر ۱۴۰۰

The verb must mean "to reduce or diminish the value/beauty of something," because an ugly vacant lot takes away from how attractive the neighborhood is.

• detract (from) — to diminish or take away from the worth, value, or beauty of something. This is the fixed collocation detract from, and it fits perfectly: the lot detracts from the beauty.
• deplete — to use up / exhaust a supply (e.g., deplete resources); it is normally transitive and does not pair with from in this sense.
• derive (from) — to obtain or originate from a source. This reverses the meaning: it would say the lot gets beauty from the neighborhood, which is illogical.
• deviate (from) — to depart from a standard, course, or norm; it concerns direction/conformity, not diminishing beauty.

Only detracts gives a sentence that is both grammatical (detract + from) and logical.

Exam trick: Many distractors share the same preposition from (derive from, deviate from, detract from). Pick by meaning, not by the preposition — only detract from means "to lessen the appeal of."