What does loathsome mean as it is used in the following lines from Act IV, Scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet?%0D%0AJuliet: Or, if I live, is it not very like %0D%0AThe horrible conceit of death and night, %0D%0ATogether with the terror of this place,-- %0D%0AAs in a vault, an ancient receptacle, %0D%0AWhere, for this many hundred years, the bones %0D%0AOf all my buried ancestors are pack’d; %0D%0AWhere bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth %0D%0ALies festering in his shroud; where, as they say, %0D%0AAt some hours in the night spirits resort;--%0D%0AAlack, alack, it is not like that I, %0D%0ASo early waking,--what with loathsome smells, %0D%0AAnd shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, %0D%0AThat living mortals, hearing them, run mad;%0D%0A(1 point)%0D%0AResponses%0D%0A%0D%0Ahorrible%0D%0Ahorrible%0D%0A%0D%0Adifferent%0D%0Adifferent%0D%0A%0D%0Asharp%0D%0Asharp%0D%0A%0D%0Aaromatic

In this context, loathsome means extremely unpleasant or disgusting. Juliet is describing the smells and sounds in the tomb as being so repulsive that they could drive someone mad.

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horrible