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   A·ghast

   /əˈɡast/

   

   adjective

   • 1. filled with horror or shock: "when the news came out they were aghast"

   Word Origin late Middle English: past participle of the obsolete verb agast, gast ‘frighten’, from Old Englishgǣsten. The spelling with gh (originally Scots) became general by about 1700, probably influenced by ghost; compare with ghastly.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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