Choose the best word to fill in the blank. Some wealthy city-dwellers become enchanted with the…
The correct choice is: “noisome” The stench is so bad that the city-dwellers move back. ‘Noisome’ means offensive, foul-smelling or disgusting, so it fits. “olfactory”…
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Choose the best word to fill in the blank.
Some wealthy city-dwellers become enchanted with the prospect of trading their hectic schedules for a bucolic life in the countryside, and they buy property with a pleasant view of farmland – only to find the stench of the livestock so……. that they move back to the city.
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The correct choice is: “noisome”
The stench is so bad that the city-dwellers move back. ‘Noisome’ means offensive, foul-smelling or disgusting, so it fits.
“olfactory” (relating to the sense of smell) is a neutral classifying adjective and cannot be intensified by ‘so’; “bovine” (relating to cattle) and “atavistic” (reverting to ancestral traits) do not describe how unpleasant a smell is.
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