| Term | Definition |
|---|
| loathsome | causing feelings of disgust, revolt, syn: abhorrent, disgusting |
| writhe: | to twist the body about, to squirm as if in pain |
| withered | to be shriveled up without moisture |
| grudgingly | displaying or reflecting reluctance or unwillingness |
| unearthly | seeming not to belong to this earth or world |
| rejoice | to be glad, to delight, to make joyful |
| exquisite | of special beauty or charm, intense, rare, and appealing |
| cascade | a waterfall descending over a steep rocky surface |
| torrent | a stream of water flowing with great rapidity, violent downpour |
| poignant | keenly distressing to the feelings, affecting or moving the emotions |
| quest | a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something; to search of seek |
| wistful | characterized by melancholy, longing, yearning, |
| nostalgic | a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home, homeland, friends or family. a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time |
| bittersweet | both bitter and sweet to the taste, both pleasant and painful or regretful |
| buffet | to strike as with the hand or fist, to contend against, battle |
| avenge | to take vengeance or exact satisfaction for: to avenge a grave insult. to get back at. |
| mortal | liable or subject to death. of or relating to humankind, the mortal limits of understanding; of, relating to, or accompanying death |
| adrift | floating without control, lacking aim or stability |
| fate | something that unavoidably befalls a person, fortune, lot. the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed; the decreed cause of events |
| destiny | something that is to happen or has happened to a particular person or thing, lot of fortune |
| infested | to inhabit of overrun in numbers or quantities large enough to be harmful, threatening, or obnoxious. to live as a parasite in or on. |
| lop | to cut off branches, twigs, etc. to eliminate as unnecessary or excessive |
| agile | active, lively, quick and well-coordinated in movement. |
| clasp | to hold or buckle |
| grim | fierce or cruel, stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise. of a sinister or ghastly character |
| labyrinth | an intricate combination of paths or passages in which it is difficult to find one's way or reach an exit |
| intricate | having many interrelated parts of facets, entangled or involved. complex, complicated, hard to understand or make |
| bewilder | to confuse or puzzle completely, perplex |
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