Word | Definition | Sentence from the Anchor Text
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summarily | quickly, and without hesitation, ceremony, or customary formalities | "The commandant has issued an order...that any civilian caught interfering with the railroad, its bridges...or trains will be summarily hanged."
poignant | physically or emotionally distressing and painful | "Keen, poignant agonies seemed to shoot from his neck downward through every fiber of his body and limbs."
effaced | wiped out; worn away; erased | "The intellectual part of his nature was already effaced; he had power only to feel, and feeling was torment."
undulations | smooth movement up and down, like waves | "They tore [the rope] away and thrust it fiercely aside, its undulations resembling those of a water snake."
presaging | predicting a very likely, unpleasant outcome | "How coldly and pitilessly-with what an even, calm intonation, presaging, and enforcing tranquility in the men-...fell those cruel words [to shoot him]."
interminable | endless (often used as an exaggeration) | "The forest seemed interminable; nowhere did he discover a break in it, not even a woodsman's road."
malign | evil in nature or intent | "He was sure [the stars] were arranged in some order which had a secret and malign significance."
ineffable | beyond expression; indescribable | "At the bottom of the steps [his wife] stands with a smile of ineffable joy, and attitude of matchless grace and dignity,"

Questions:

1. Which of these would be the most poignant? (check one)
- stubbing your toe
- falling off of a bridge
- burning your tongue on hot tea

2. Which of the vocabulary words best describes how a worm might move?