Asked by gg

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

All Answers 1

Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
baleful

Reason: "Bursting with evil" describes something threatening or harmful; "baleful" means malignant or menacing. The other choices (apathy = lack of feeling, dormant = inactive, exhume = dig up) don't match.