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imploringly


to beg foe mercy; to


want so bad and suck


up and beg to get it

eluded

to have cleverness; trickey

doggedly

to have a lot of effort

inhalation

the act of breathing in big

sullenly

ill humor by a gloomy silence

fiend

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