- aloof: apart in distance; shy
- emphatic: speaking with emphasis
- faltered: hesitated or stumbled
- feigned: pretended or made up
- glint: to flash, gleam, or shine
- imperiously: very commanding or urgent
- knell: stroke or sound of a bell
- lynched: to put to death without authority or a trial
- malevolently: being spiteful or wishing evil on someone
- nauseous: to feel sick at the stomach
- outwit: to outsmart someone
- stealthily: secretly
- tormentor: one who teases and causes mental anguish
- venison: deer meat