| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Penury | Extreme poverty - noun |
| Annihilate | destroy completely- verb |
| Liquidate | to put an end to; abolish - verb |
| Surreptitiously | clandestine or stealthy, secretly obtained - adv |
| Irrevocably | impossible to retract revoke - adv |
| Pious | having or exhibiting religious reverence; earnestly complaint in the observance of religion - adj |
| Procession | a group of people, vehicles, or objects moving along in an oderly formal manner - noun |
| Harangued | a delivered speech or piece of writing characterized by strong feeling or expression; through a tirade - verb |
| Pittance | a very small amount - noun |
| Gallows | a device usually consisting of 2 upright posts supporting a crossbeam from which a house is suspended and used for hanging - noun |
| Emaciated | extremely thin, especially as a result of starvation - adj. |
| Knell | the sound of a bell knelling; a toll - noun |
| Faltering | to be unsteady in purpose or action, as from loss of courage of confidence, waver - verb |
| Automaton | A self-operating machine or mechanism, especially a robot - noun |
| Transcended | passed beyond the limits of: to be greater than, as in intensity or power - verb |
| Laden | weighed down with a load; heavy - adj. |
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