| Term | Definition |
| fistful | handful; a considerable number or amount |
| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |
| gnawed | to bite or chew on with the teeth |
| laments | mourn aloud; to express sorrow |
| destruction | ruin; the fact or state of being destroyed |
| ray | a thin line of light |
| acquaintance | a person whom one knows but who is not a particularly close friend |
| amputated | to cut from (as a limb) from the body |
| sympathy | having common feelings |
| inconsolable | not capable of being comforted |
| decently | appropriate |
| notorious | widely and unfavorably known |
| contradiction | a statement or phrase that asserts or implies both the truth and falsity of something |