1. Word Wall Week Twenty-four

2. famished (adjective)

3. suffering from extreme hunger After being lost in the woods overnight, she was exhausted and famished.

4. beseech (verb)

5. to ask earnestly for <“Please spare my life!” she beseeched.

6. macabre (adjective)

7. having death as a subject

8. divine (adjective)

9. relating to or coming directly from God or a god

10. lineage (noun)

11. the ancestors from whom a person is descended

12. languish (verb)

13. to become weak

14. dearth (noun)

15. lack

16. berate (verb)

17. to scold forcefully >

18. rebuke (verb)

19. to criticize sharply

20. ajar (adjective)

21. slightly open