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Monkey's Paw Vocab
| Word | Definition | STEMS |
|---|---|---|
| grave | very serious and worrying | grav=weight |
| furtively | secretively, sneakily, stealthily | ly=features of |
| maligned | spoken ill of | mal=bad |
| apathy | lack of interest or emotion | a=without pathos=feelings |
| credulity | tendency to believe to easily | cred=believe |
| oppressive | causing great discomfort or distressing | press |
| peril/perilous | dangers; dangerous | ous=features of |
| fusillade | a massive outpouring | fus=to pout |
| rubicund | red colored | rubi=red |