What I find most galling it

Hello, I’m preparing for an important examination, and today there is a question which I do not really understand.


I have tried to look these words in OALD, and they all mean “angry”. The answer is A, can you explain to me why it is like that?
THank you so much in advance.

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Well, out of the four options only ‘galling’ fits the context. “Furious” doesn’t work because it refers to only to people and not situations or behaviours, ‘touchy’ doesn’t work either because you can’t say that you find something ‘touchy’, a person can be touchy but not a situation and the same holds true for ‘blazing’.

By the way, there is a mistake in this sentence. It needs to read ‘the decency’ not ‘a decency’ so I recommend you stop using those materials.

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You want a gerund. Here are some examples of this structure.

What I find most galling…
(What galls me the most)

What I find most infuriating…
(What infuriates me the most)

What I find most touching…
(What touches me the most)

(‘blazing’ doesn’t work in this structure)

What I find most appealing…
What I find most baffling…
What I find most enlightening…
What I find most deceiving…

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