What does loathsome mean as it is used in the following lines from Act IV, Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet? Juliet: Or, if I live, is it not very like The horrible conceit of death and night, Together with the terror of this place,-- As in a vault, an ancient receptacle, Where, for this many hundred years, the bones Of all my buried ancestors are pack’d; Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say, At some hours in the night spirits resort;-- Alack, alack, it is not like that I, So early waking,--what with loathsome smells, And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad; (1 point) Responses horrible horrible different different sharp sharp aromatic
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The word "loathsome" in this context means extremely unpleasant or disgusting, referring to the smells and sounds Juliet is experiencing in the vault.
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