In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
The story is rather hard to believe
incredulous
incredible
superstitious
untenable
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Incredulous is an adjective for a person. E.g She is so incredulous, she hardly believes what people say.
Incredible, on the other hand, is an adjective for a thing or occurrence. E.g That is such an incredible story, no one will believe it.
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incredulous should be the correct answer because it means unable to believe something which is closer in meaning to the underlined word
Question 15, Incredulous means something is hard to believe (so it should be the synonym of 'hard to believe' instead of incredible.
Incredible describes the object or the event itself (the story).
Incredulous describes the person listening to the story.
so if the story is hard to believe it's incredible, however, if you don't believe what you are hearing you are incredulous, do you get
incredible-object
incredulous- person
okay,from the explanation that my school made
the sentence shows that the story is real buh it just too hard to believe
buh if it were to be incredulous that mean the story is not true so it hard to believe...shey you get
so it abd incredible story that it hard to believe but it's true
