Chap.13 and 14 vocab, words

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    • dire- a situation extremely serious.
    • besieged- to crowd around unbearably.
    • famished- extremely hungry.
    • distended- to cause sth. to swell by stretching from inside.
    • blighted- a rundown of an area.
    • pillage- to rob using violence esp. in wartime.