1. supplication- a humble prayer or request to a deity or superior

2. compunction -remorse; feeling of guilty uneasiness

3. expedient - a thing useful to achieve an end

4. decrepit - weak or worn out by age or long use

5. incarnate- appearing as a recognizable, living example; personified

6. disdain - scorn felt for someone considered inferior

7. void - that which is empty; containing nothing

8. venerate - to look upon with reverence

9. primal - original; of chief importance

10. engender - to cause to be; produce