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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mutilate | inflict a severe and disfiguring injury on (a person or part of the body). |
| Anguished | experiencing or expressing severe mental or physical pain or suffering. |
| Sparse | thinly dispersed or scattered |
| Skeptically | in a skeptical manner; with doubt or hesitation |
| Subside | become less intense, violent, or severe |
| Rigid | unable to bend or be forced out of shape; not flexible. |
| Contorted | twisted or bent out of the normal shape. |
| Imploring | making an earnest or desperate appeal. |
| Parched | dried out with heat. |
| Grotesque | comically or repulsively ugly or distorted. |
| Ecstatic | feeling or expressing overwhelming happiness or joyful excitement. |
| Solitude | the state or situation of being alone. |
| Pervade | (especially of a smell) spread through and be perceived in every part of. |
| Obsolete | no longer produced or used; out of date. |
| Optimistic | hopeful and confident about the future. |