In the following questions choose the word which is the exact OPPOSITE of the given words.
In the following the questions choose the word which best expresses the meaning of the given word.
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow:
Harold a professional man who had worked in an office for many years had a fearful dream. In it, he found himself in a land where small slug-like animals with slimy tentacles lived on people's bodies. The people tolerated the loathsome creatures because after many years they grew into elephants which then became the nation's system of transport, carrying everyone wherever he wanted to go. Harold suddenly realised that he himself was covered with these things, and he woke up screaming. In a vivid sequence of pictures this dream dramatized for Harold what he had never been able to put in to words; he saw himself as letting society feed on his body in his early years so that it would carry him when he retired. He later threw off the "security bug" and took up free-lance work.
Which one of the following phrases best helps to bring out the precise meaning of 'loathsome creatures'?
The passage talks about how he stopped being bothered about the need for security as “in a vivid sequence of pictures this dream dramatized for Harold what he had never been able to put in to words; he saw himself as letting society feed on his body in his early years so that it would carry him when he retired.” This he later on threw off.
Harold's dream was fearful because