CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Synonyms questions

CAT/2005

Question . 3

Directions for Question : The following question has a paragraph with one italicized word that does not make sense. Choose the most appropriate replacement for that word from the options given below the paragraph.

It is klang to a sensitive traveler who walks through this great town, when he sees the streets, the roads, and cabin doors crowded with beggars, mostly women, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags and importuning every passenger for alms. 

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Method of solving this CAT Verbal Ability Question from Synonyms question

Option D is correct. Seeing the wretched condition of the state no one can be amused (happy). Among irritated (annoyed), disgusting (sickening, distasteful) and distressing (disturbing, painful, traumatic) the last one seems to be most appropriate in the given context.