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Question | Answer |
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vengeance | the desire for revenge |
crimson | deep purplish-red |
petulant | unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered |
barren | providing no shelter or substance |
siege | the surrounding and blockading of a city,town, or fortress by an army attempting to capture it |
carrion | the dead and rottng body of an dead animal |
ransom | the price or payment demanded or paid for such release |
compensate | do or give something to somebody in return |
pyre | a pile of wood on which a dead body is ceremonially burned |
horde | a large group or crowd; a swarm |
orator | a person who makes public speeches, very eloquent ones |
impetuous | acting in a hasty manner and without thinking |
truce | a(usually temporary)rest from fighting,agreed to by both sides |
instatiable | not able to be satisfied |
defile | to dishonor by physical acts(as trampling, dirtying, or mutilating) |
havoc | great destruction or damage |
gory | with a lot of blood or bloodshed |
ally | a person, group,or nation that is associated with another or others for some common cause or purpose |
burnish | to make (metal) bright by polishing |
leisure | time which one can spend as one likes, especially when one does not have to work |