Question

read the sentence. the look on the villain’s face seemed to be bursting with evil, and gave the moviegoers the chills. based on its structure, which word most likely has the closest meaning to the underlined phrase? ○ apathy ○ baleful ○ dormant ○ exhume

Explanation:

1. Analyze the meaning of "bursting with evil": It means full of evil or having a harmful, malicious quality.
2. Analyze each option:

• Apathy: Lack of interest or emotion, not related to evil.
• Baleful: Having a harmful or evil influence; threatening, which matches the meaning of "bursting with evil".
• Dormant: Inactive, not related to evil.
• Exhume: To dig up (a corpse), not related to evil.

Answer:

B. baleful