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Despondent
(adj.) State of extreme sadness, hopelessness, or discouragement
suppliants
(noun) Refers to a group of people who seek help or protection: people of Thebes.
Wailing
(adj.) Vocal expression of intense sadness or pain; loud, high-pitched cry expressing grief, sorrow, or distress.
blight
(noun) Curse or affliction that affects the land or the people
(verb) luxuriates
Self-indulge; excessive pleasure; manipulative extension
Oracle
(noun) a place where a person can go & ask for answers to questions and/or predict the future
Kinsman
(noun) Relative; blood relation
Harbor
(verb) Suppress feelings; keeping it to yourself
Banish
(verb) Exile; send away
Cortege
(noun) funeral procession (# of people/vehicles moving forward in orderly fashion)
Infamy
(noun) Disgrace; fame for negative reasons
Proclamation
(noun) Official announcement
Prophet
(noun) person who speaks for God or a deity, or by divine inspiration
Spurn
(verb) Refuse reject with contempt (disrespect/feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration)
Shroud
(noun) cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial
Lurks
(verb) remain hidden to wait in ambush for someone or something
Quack
(noun) Fraudulent/fake pretender of medical skill
Scheming
(adj.) Suspicious plotting; sly
Scourge
(noun) a person who harasses, punishes, or causes destruction
Fathom
(verb) Grasp; comprehend; understand
sowed
(verb) Plant by scattering it on or in earth
insufferable
(adj.) too extreme to bear
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