From one hour to the next, a resident might wake to jackhammers tearing up the pavement, drift off to sirens wailing toward the hospital, or spend an afternoon amid hawkers shouting over one another, so that the neighborhood's soundscape amounted, at nearly every moment, to sheer _______.

Two Answers
A. euphony
B. cacophony
C. stridency
D. concord
E. evanescence
F. dissonance