Carcass wrote:
Far from condemning Warhol for his apparent superficiality and commercialism, critics today ________ him for these very qualities, contending that in these superficial, commercial artworks he had captured the essence of American culture in the 1970s.
A. belittle
B. ​chastise
C. ​tolerate
D. ​extol ​
E. flaunt ​
F. hail
The phrase 'Far from' suggests us that the missing word should be a synonym opposite to condemning.
Extol and Hail are good fits, thus option D and F are correct answers.