- Anguish: extreme mental distress
- Barbarian: a member of an uncivilized people
- Battered: beaten repeatedly with heavy blows
- Consolingly: in a comforting or consoling manner
- Current: a flow or stream of water or electricity
- Dishearted: to lose hope, faith
- Elated: exultantly proud and joyful
- Faltered: spoke hesitantly ; stammered
- Flannel: a soft light woolen fabric
- Galling: causing irritation or annoyance
- Gypsy: traveling amusement
- Jaunty: having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air
- Legal: allowed by official rules
- Marionette: a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer
- Ordeal: a severe or trying experience
- Parlor: living or sitting room
- Parson: minister
- Perilous: fraught with danger
- Remnant: remainder
- Reservoir: lake used to store water for community use
- Self-deprecation: meek or modest behavior
- Silhouette: a dark outline against a light background
- Troupe: a group or company