Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Rats or worse and the damsel of distress

                 Word wizard 

Grim  
1.stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise
"Grim he is okay sometimes" pg 55

Optimum 
the best or most favorable point, degree, amount, etc., as of temperature, light, and moisture for the growth or reproduction of an organism.   

"Optimum darkness occurs at oh three hundred hours"pg56

Soot
a black, carbonaceous substance produced during incomplete combustion of coal
"We must dress in black and cover our faces with soot"pg56

Dungarees 
work clothes, overalls, etc., of  blue denim. 
"I've got black dungarees but no black shirts"pg56

Fealty
History/Historical
"Pledge me to your fealty"pg58

Tenements 
a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city

"They used to call it the new tenements"pg 63

                       Picture 

I chose this picture Becuase in the beginning of chapter ten they found a purse and it was wet soggy and ugly and that was the whole reason they went to the tenements so I think that this purse was very important to chapter 10-11.

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