meddle：　to interfere, to intrude

　　mend：　 to repair

　　mirth：　 being merry and happy

　　nausea：　feeling of sickness

　　neglect：　pay no attention to

　　nocturnal：　of or in the night

　　obese：　 very fat

　　obsolete：　no longer useful, outdated

　　perch：　 take up a high position

　　pervade：　spread through every part of

　　petulant：　unreasonably impatient or irritable

　　pillage：　plunder (esp in war)

　　presumptuoustoo bold or self-confident

　　quashed ：　annuled

　　quenching：satisfy, put an end to, put out

　　refurbished make clean, as if like new

　　rejoicing：　happiness, joy

　　reticent：　in the habit of saying little　reverberate be sent back, again and again

　　rigor：　sternness, strictness, severe conditions

　　rotundity：　state of being round

　　salvage：　the saving of property from loss

　　scattered：　not situated together

　　shatter：　to break into many pieces

　　shunned：　avoided, kept away from

　　sketchy：　shortly, roughly, quickly

　　sporadic：　happening from time to time

　　stifled：　suppressed, kept back
astrive：　to make great efforts, to struggle　subsequent following

　　succumb：　yield, die

　　taciturn：　unspoken, silent

　　tantalize：　raise hopes that cannot be realized

　　tentative：　uncertain, probable

　　torpid：　dull and slow

　　treacherous not to be trusted, perfidious

　　tremor：　thrill

　　tyro：　a beginner

　　uproar：　noise and excitement

　　vanity：　a foolish pride　vehemence forcefulness; intensity; conviction

　　vigilance：　watchfulness

　　vindicate：　prove the truth

　　voluptuous arousing sensual pleasures

　　wan：　looking ill, not bright　wile：a trick

　　wrinkle：　make small lines (eg forehead)