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imploringly

to beg urgently

eluded

evade or escape

doggedly

presistent in effort

inhalation

an act or instance of inhailing

sullenly

showing irration or ill humor by a gloomy silence

fiend

satan

conviction

a fixed or firm belief

plasma

the liquid part of blood

hue

a vartiation of color

indignant

feeling or charatized by

detached

not attached

hysterics

an uncomfortable laughfter

subsides

to sink to a low or lower level

gorged

wearing something on the neck

keeled

a central fore-and-aft strucal member

racking

the stepping back of the ends of coures