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Vocab week 15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Grimace | A facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain, or disgust. |
| Emaciate | To become abnormally thin or weak, especially because of illness or a lack of food. |
| Beseech | To ask someone urgently and fervently to do something; to implore or entreat. |
| Annihilate | To destroy utterly; to obliterate or reduce to nonexistence. |
| Prophecy | A prediction of what will happen in the future, often believed to be delivered by divine inspiration. |
| Contagion | The communication of disease from one person to another by close contact; a disease spread in this manner. |
| Semblance | The outward appearance or apparent form of something, especially when the reality is different. |
| Plaintive | Sounding sad and mournful. |
| Automaton | A moving mechanical device made in imitation of a human being; a person who acts in a mechanical or unemotional way. |
| Spasmodic | Occurring or done in brief, irregular bursts; relating to or caused by a muscle spasm. |