Read the following passage and answer the question.
thus sped the demoniac on his course, until, quivering among the trees, he saw a red light before him, as when the felled trunks and branches of a clearing have been set on fire, and throw up their lurid blaze against the
what is the connotation of lurid in the sentence?
hot
attractive
horrifying
enchanted

C) horrifying.

Explanation: The connotation of a word is the meaning given by the context, and also by the readers, according to their own experiences and the emotions that the word inspires in them. It is the antonym of denotation, which is the literal definition of a word (the one that we can find in a dictionary), in the given passage, the connotation of the word "lurid" is horrifying.