OFTM 36-45

Question 1

guillotine

Answer 1

a device for beheading a person by means of a heavy blade that is dropped between two posts serving as guides: widely used during the French Revolution.

Question 2

testimony

Answer 2

the statement or declaration of a witness under oath or affirmation, usually in court.

Question 3

evolve

Answer 3

to develop gradually.

Question 4

retch

Answer 4

to make efforts to vomit.

Question 5

devour

Answer 5

to swallow or eat up hungrily.

Question 6

mesmerized

Answer 6

to hypnotize.

Question 7

deflates

Answer 7

to release the air or gas from (something inflated, as a balloon).

Question 8

excruciating

Answer 8

extremely painful; causing intense suffering; unbearably distressing; torturing.

Question 9

execution

Answer 9

a putting to death especially as a legal penalty.

Question 10

paramount

Answer 10

superior to all others.

Question 11

injustice

Answer 11

absence of justice: violation of right or of the rights of another.

Question 12

unconditional

Answer 12

not conditional or limited.

Question 13

heartsick

Answer 13

very depressed.