GLOSSARY:
Above-board : open, clear
Abruptly : at once
Affection : condition, love
Affliction : pain
Alarming tendency : dangerous inclination
Angular : weak
Apparently : obviously
Argify : argue
Artistic : full of art, creative, imaginative
As merry ... sandboy : extremely happy and carefree
Assigned : given
Attained : got
Awful phantom : fearful ghost
Awfully : greatly
Blinds : shutter, curtains
Bonerimmed : rims made of bone pile of notes
Boo : hooting
Brassily : rudely
Briskly : quickly, rapidly, smartly
Brogans : heavy anklehigh boot with laces
Brow : forehead
Bulliest : excellent
Bumping : striking
Bureau : writing desk with drawers
Cemetery : where dead bodies are buried
Chased : followed
Chattering : talking voice
Chill : coldness
Chirpy : like a bird
Choked : suffocated
Chuckling : repressed laugh
Churning : producing
Clings : stick
Cloud up : grow
Clutched : caught
Cocky : overconfident
Complacent : self-satisfied
Conceal : hide
Consternation : utter shock, dismay
Contradict : oppose
Contraption : device
Coon : the one doing a menial job
Corrugated : wrinkled
Coyly : flirtatious but pretending to be shy or modest
Crawled : went slowly
Crazy : mad
Crept up : came
Crimson : deep red
Crisped : spoke with liveliness
Crushed : suppressed
Daft : mad, foolish, silly, stupid
Darn : very much, mend, sew
Dazed : in a shock, stunned
Decidedly : fully
Demobilize : to make stay put
Desperately : hopelessly
Despised : hated, reviled
Devilish : of devil
Disconcerted : upset, confused
Disintegrate : dissolve
Disparagingly : criticizing, blaming
Distinctly : clearly
Distinguished : recognized
Draped : lolled, hanged or drooped laxly
Dratted : used to express annoyance
Dreadful : horrible, awful
Drivelling : speaking nonsense
Drooping : hanging down
Duckiest : natural
Dunned : asking again and again
Elaborately : precisely
Elapsed : passed, beyond, onwards
Enormous : big, huge, massive
Evaporate : dissolve in vapours
Exasperated : in despair
Exert : put, apply, use
Faculties : capacities
Fad : fashion, new thing
Faded : disappeared
Fanatics : narrowminded
Fascination : attraction, charm
Fervently : passionately, eagerly
Finality : end, conclusively
Flapping : moving
Flirt : showing/making love
Flirtatious : one who flirts
Flushed : agitated, exited
Furtively : silently, secretively
Gait : walk, pace, step
Gallivanting : Going about seeking pleasure
Gaping : looking with open mouth
Gasped : breathed deeply
Gaudy : bright, loud, flashy
Gazes : looks keenly, stares
Gingerly : with bitterness
Give way : surrender
Glared : looked with wide eyes
Grin : laughing foolishly with showing of teeth
Groaned : gave out a cry of pain
Grocer : merchant of general things
Grubbing : taking by force, searching
Gulped : swallowed
Gurgled : bubbling sound, coughed
Haunt : disturb again and again
Hoodoos : cursing with bad luck etc
Horrors : fears
Hovered : flew over
Huffily : in a bad temper
Hussy : of low morals, a saucy or impudent girl
Hysterics : sudden outbursts
Illuminated : lit up
Imbecility : foolishness
Impassive : calm, unemotional
In colours : in colourful and gay dress
In vain : useless
Inexorable : unstoppable
Inspiration : act of encouraging useless
Kindling : creating again
Lithely : nimbly
Live propositions : living persons oppose
Lumber : timber
Majestically : graceful
Manipulators : schemers
Maroon : brownish red
Materialize : to be in physical form
Musty : looking very old and fungusridden
Muttered : mumbled
Mysteriously : full of mystery
Noddded : shook head
Nuisance : troubling, nuisance
Ostentatiously : showily
Ouija board : a board, having alphabets marked
Parlour : room, salon,
Patronizingly : supporting
Peeps : looks through
Piled up : headed
Pinching : stealing
Piqued : felt indignation, irritated
Plagued : troubled
Plumb : fat, measure
Poetic license : freedom to change facts or rules of language
Popped : came out
Precisely : exactly, accurately, quite
Precocious : a person, whose mental attitude is developed beyond his/her age
Premonitory : a foreboding
Prickle : pricking
Professional etiquette : manners of the profession
Protruding : jutting out
Prying : looking keenly and tries to find out information in others life
Public house : a pub, bar
Purgatory : place for purification
Purple : blue, mauve
Queerly : strangely, oddly
Recollections : remembrances
Refined : very good, polished, superior
Reluctantly : unwillingly
Reminiscent : with mind full of memories
Resumes : restarts
Retain : keep, preserve, maintain
Revealing : showing
Rubbish : dirt, litter, waste
Saracastically : with taunts
Scarecrow : frightening non-live figure
Scared : fearful, terrified, nervous
Scout : move around
Semblance : similarity, air, impression
Shirtwaist : a woman's blouse shaped like a mans shirt
Shivered : trembled
Shoved : put aside
Simpered : smile in a silly, often coy manner
Skeered : scared
Slide down : slipped down
Sly : cunning, clever
Smallish : small
Snappishly : badtempered
Sneaking : entering silently like thieves
Sniff : smell, inhale, breath in
Sniffed : showed contempt with breathing through nose
Snug :comfortable, cozy
Sobbing : weeping with sobs
Solemnly : seriously
Spasm : contraction, tremor
Speck : trace, sign, dot
Squeak : grating sound
Staccatoed : spoke in an abrupt manner
Staring : looking keenly
Startled : surprised
Sternly : harshly
Stiff : hard, rigid, firm
Stooping : bending
Stout : strong and healthy
Stuck : got fixed
Stuff : matter, material
Stung : pricked
Sucked : absorbed
Supernatural : preternatural, mystical
Swallowed : gulped
Tailcoat : Mans black coat with a long rounded split tail
Tangle : knot, twist
Tapped : patted
Telescoped : disappeared
Terrified : greatly fearful
Thrilling : exciting
Thrusts : pushes
Tomfoolery : foolishness
Traitor : antination, spy
Transfixed : fixed to the ground stick
Trifles : little things
Twilight : light before night and after sunset
Twitch : contraction
Unaccustomed agility : smartness newly acquired
Uncanny : strange, weird
Unfolded : opened
Vanished : disappeared
Vestige : sign, trace, mark
Vigorous : strong
Vindictive : revengeful
Waspishly : with irritation
Wild : mad, angry
Wrest : take by force
