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radical thorough going or extreme peril exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger provoke to give rise to, induce, or bring about placid pleasantly calm or peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed amiable good natured grim harsh, stern; admitting no compromise torrent a stream of water flowing with great rapidity and violence condoling expressing sympathy (here about the bad weather) burly large in bodily size; stout; sturdy proffer an offer or proposal (in this case the offer was a seat by the fire) fakir Muslim or Hindu holy people, thought by some people to perform miracles offhand informal, casual, curt or brusque grimace a facial expression, often ugly or contorted, that indicates disapproval, pain fate that which is inevitably predetermined; destiny; something that unavoidably befalls a person; fortune; lot doggedly persistent in effort; stubbornly tenacious talisman something thought to have a magic power enthralled spellbound; captivated to malign/maligned To make evil, harmful, and often untrue statements about; speak evil of. dubious doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt credulity A disposition to believe too readily. to mar/marred to damage or spoil to a certain extent; prosaic commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative: avaricious greedy; covetous disown repudiate; renounce furtive taken, done, used, surreptitiously or by stealth; secret apathy lack of emotions or interest unwholesome unhealthful; suggestive of disease pulsating to expand and contract rhythmically, as the heart; beat; throb; to vibrate; quiver oppressive causing discomfort by being excessive; distressing fusillade in this case it is something resembling a rapid, continuous series of gunshots