- abruptly: unexpectedly sudden
- anguished: feeling of severe physical or mental pain
- apprehension: a feeling of fear or possible danger
- bindle: anything wrapped or tied up for carrying; bedroll
- bleated: the cry usually associated with a goat, sheep, or calf
- brusquely: noticeably rude or brief, discourteously blunt
- burlap: coarse canvas of jute used for making sacks
- cesspool: a covered pit or tank where sewage is stored
- contemptuously: a feeling of disrespect for; scorn
- contorted: to force or twist out of its usual shape
- cowering: to shrink and tremble from fear
- crestfallen: disappointed at failure
- debris: the scattered remains of something broken or destroyed
- deliberately: intentional, done or said on purpose
- fascinated: to attract and hold interest
- gigantic: very large
- gingerly: with great care, cautiously
- imperiously: commanding, bossy
- mauled: torn; worn out
- morosely: sullen, gloomy, unsociable
- mottled: to cover a surface with spots or streaks of different shades or colors
- ominously: looking or seeming as if trouble is at hand; menacing
- persuasive: to cause to believe or do something by reasoning with them
- plaintively: sounding sad, expressing sorrow
- pugnacious: eager and ready to fight
- recumbent: lying down, reclining, resting
- scoff: to make fun of rudely
- skeptically: having doubts, questioning
- skitter: to skip, glide, or move lightly or rapidly across the surface
- ticking: strong fabric for making mattresses or pillows
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