| A | B |
|---|
| draft | a flow of cold air |
| desperately | you will do anything to change your situation |
| inventor | person who creates something new |
| belching | to send out fire and smoke |
| absurd | silly or ridiculous |
| stammer | to speak in an unsure way, stopping often and repeating certain sounds |
| faint | dizzy and weak |
| clever | able to understand things or do things quickly and easily |
| proper | stiffly formal |
| furnace | a large enclosed metal chamber in which fuel is burned to produce heat |
| nightcap | a cap worn to bed |
| eager | very interested in doing something |
| expose | to reveal the truth about someone or something |
| nibble | to bite something gently or to take small bites of something |
| colossal | extremely large |
| youth | the quality or state of being young |
| ferociously | very fierce and savage |
| beckon | to make a sign to someone asking the person to come |
| enormously | large |
| hooligan | a noisy violent person who makes trouble |
| repulsive | very distasteful or disgusting |
| vow | to make a serious and important promise |
| criticize | to tell someone what he or she has done wrong |
| glisten | to shine in a sparkling way |
| frantically | wildly excited by worry or fear |
| disappointed | to let someone down by failing to do what he or she expected |
| ravenously | very hungry |
| glint | if you have a glint in your eye, you are secretly amused |
| scraggy | thin and bony |
| stiletto | a long slender dagger with a thick blade |
| despicable | if you despise something or someone you dislike that thing or person greatly |
| revolting | disgusting, as in a revolting smell |
