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[텝스어휘] HIDEOUS

Q) ( )에 의미상 어색한 단어는?
The countless violent scenes  remind us  how (   ) the world is.
①offensive ②abhorrent  ③repulsive ④hideous ⑤attractive



[hideous]

* 역겹고 불쾌한  in 보기에, 도덕적으로, 경험등

① offensive, disgusting, horrible  to the senses and to  sight  (보기에 흉칙한, 역겨운)
 eg)  ~ lizard- like creatures  
      a piteous and ~ spectacle 

② morally offensive, shocking to the moral sense (도덕적으로 역겨운) 
  eg) a~ crime that could not be fully described in the  newspapers.

③  very unpleasant, painful, or difficult to bear in event, experience. 
  (사건, 경험등이: 역겨운 , 고통스러운  ) 
  eg) His family was subjected to a hideous attack by the gang

④ 엄청난, 예상외로 많은 
   eg) the ~ expenses of moving one’s home to another city 


<유의어 >
offensive, horrible,  shocking, abhorrent,  repulsive 


▲repulsive 
1) offensive ( 역겨운, 불쾌한 in 행동, 감각)
   * a repulsive sight[smell]

2) disgusting (when someone is repulsive) 
  * What a ~ guy ! 

3) 반발하는 (물리학에서)
  * a ~ force 


▲abhorrent
1) disgusting (If something is abhorrent to you)
 * Racism is abhorrent to a civilized society