No. 3
Summary:
Four girls have lost their way in the woods and needed shelter. Until, they found a macabre nearby. They found the hospitability of the persons as weird as it is. They join the feast with them. They slept there in barn. After ten in the morrow, they were left by Louisa, who was eventually gone to the old man’s house, they find something. The old man’ name was Franklin. The girls came to the house to bid goodbye but Franklin resisted. They used to stay and try to be suited in the house. Caroline and Louisa try to get the job done by filling buckets with water, but unfortunate, Caroline slipped through the pit and found maggots on her face. Louis shouted for help and then, she was at last, saved.
While all the three girls slept; Caroline was wide awake frightened by some strange on the roof. She suspected it was Franklin.
The three girls soon realized what Caroline suspected; everything turned changed. The two girls, Caroline and Jane soon left and followed a track to Blacktor, but unfortunate. They met accidents going there.
The two girls left in the Gehenna’s house are now recognizing the creepiness of the house. They already went to the attic, and found it to be a hikers’ museum.
The next evening, Martin and his dog, Catherine and Jade altogether shuttered within Gehenna’s house.
At dawn, Caroline and Martin are already in the stage of getting to know each other and found themselves falling in love with each other until the next days.
With Martin’s handsomeness, all the four girls liked him.
Louisa has known the truth; the book which Franklin read had revealed the origin of Gehenna. It shows the rivalry between Gaunt and Cornwell. How Robert found the three priests? Later, Robert was imprisoned because he is supporting Cornwell. He had made love to the maid, Agnes, which served his food. When their secret relationship was revealed to the Lord, they were both imprisoned and lived life to the fullest by being cannibals. Then, Agnes gave birth to a child. Later on, Louise began to investigate.
The three girls searched everywhere, until the two of them got into the attic. They suspected the groaning sounds below to be Louisa. They’ve hurried to find the keys as summoned by Franklin. Then they found out there were no Louisa.
Passion aroused between Caroline and Martin, between their lovemaking, an accident occurred, some kind caused by a fog (methane gas).
Jade vanished and Martin had been attacked by unknown man. They continue searching. Martin and Caroline tracked the same route Louisa had and faced the room where there were two corpses lying and Martin’s wound ached.
Jade and Caroline saw what Franklin has been doing. Frightened that Franklin might caught them, they’re been introduced to Lucien. He helped them by saying the truth about Gehenna’s house. Lucien also helped them by finding the book that would direct them how to fight Robert. And it said, the four elements (earth, air, fire, water) could help.
They have saved Martin. Robert launched and Jade tried to kill him. But when she lost power, less did her move to Robert. But her fate weakens and her life to death, though she gave some little help.
Martha falls from her death when she intended to snatch the gun from Martin. Franklin grieved and caught the three fellows and trapped. Lucien tries to save them, trying to kill Robert. Lucien had succeeded with the two girls and a boy. They hurled downstairs and there were Robert and Franklin with some methane gas hanging around them. Robert tries to fight with him with the use of the lamp. Then, Agnes appeared. She wants to see Robert approaching dead so they can be together forever.
Robert was still alive with fire around his body. He and Franklin both battled and they soon approached death. The necrophobes came falling from the sky. Then the two girls and Martin continue searching for their missing friends.
Vocabulary:
1. Canopied – to cover with or as if with a canopy
2. Hampered – to restrict the movement of by bonds or obstacles; disrupt, impede, restrain
3. Rational – having reason or understanding
4. Waged – to engage in or carry on, to be in process of occurring
5. Alcove – a depression in the rock which continued above until it formed a minor cliff
6. Moldering – molding
7. Forked – resembling a fork especially in having one end divided
8. Thudding – to make or strike as to make a thud (dull sound)
9. Snort – to force air through the nose with a rough harsh sound
10. Hostel – inn
11. Crow – any of various large usually entirely glossy back passerine birds
12. Trod – tread
13. Slumped – to fall or sink suddenly
14. Steeling – to overlay, point or edge with a steel
15. Somber – grave, melancholy
16. Scale – either pan or tray with a balance
17. Prying – curious
18. Furze – gorse (spiny yellow-flowered European shrub of the legume family)
19. Cawing – littering a harsh raucous natural call of the crow or similar cry
20. Taunts – to reproach or challenge in a mocking or insulting manner, ridicule
21. Macabre – death as a subject
22. Moorland – land consists of moors (open infertile land)
23. Mausoleum – a large tomb
24. Glumly – gloomy, dreary, sullen
25. Eerie – scared, mysterious
26. Acrid – irritating, unpleasantly, pungent
27. Berth – accommodation
28. Inclement – severe in temper or action
29. Lean-tos – a wing or extension of the building having a lean to roof
30. Loomed – to come into sight in enlarged or indistinct form often as a result of atmospheric conditions
31. Ominously – foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious
32. Reek – smoke
33. Gamy – marriage
34. Strident – characterized by harsh, insistent and discordant sound
35. Shoved – to push along
36. Heap – pile; a collection of things through one another
37. Beets – a biennial garden plant of the goosefoot family that has several cultivars and possesses thick long stalked edible leaves and swollen root used as a vegetable, as a source of sugar or as forage
38. Flinched – winced
39. Clattered – rattling sound
40. Inglenook – a nook by a large open fire place also bench or settle occupying nook
41. Gaunt – barren, desolate
42. Withered – to become dry and sapless; stunned
43. Cluttered – crowded or confused mass or collection
44. Beckoned – to summon or signal typically with a nod or wave
45. Unremitting – constant
46. Haven – harbor, port, asylum
47. Nuisance – harm, injury, pest
48. Plunked – cheap or inferior wine
49. Pyrotechnic – firework
50. Rampaged – to rush wildly about
51. Lashed – to thrash or beat violently
52. Imbecile – mentally deficient person
53. Barn – usually large building for the storage of farm products
54. Straw – stalks of grain after threshing
55. Heave – elevate
56. Rickety – a drink containing liquor, lime juice, sugar and soda water
57. Byre – a cow barn
58. Latrine – toilet
59. Salvos – salve; proviso, safeguarding one’s honor
60. Evoked – conjure, invoke
61. Aura – subtle sensory stimulus
62. Horrendous – horrid, dreadful
63. Corpulent – obese
64. Foil – defeat
65. Proffer – offer, suggestion
66. Noose – a loop with a running knot that binds closer the more it is drawn
67. Corded – made or provided with cords or ridges
68. Boulder – a detached or rounded or much-worn mass of rock
69. Aberrant – staying from the right or normal way
70. Divulge – proclaim
71. Noisome – noxious, harmful, malodorous
72. Servitude – a condition in which one lacks liberty especially to determine one’s action or way of life
73. Riveted – having to fix one’s attention
74. Dithering – excitement, confusion
75. Vengeance – punishment inflicted in retaliation for an injury or offense
76. Mire – to cause to stick fast in, entangle
77. Gannets – any of a genus of large fish-eating seabirds that breed in colonies chiefly on offshore islands
78. Puckered – to become wrinkled or constricted
79. Befuddled – confused, perplexed
80. Stoically – not affected by or showing passion or feeling; impassive
81. Armageddon – the site or time of a final and conclusive battle between the forces of good and evil
82. Carnage – flesh of slain animals or men
83. Unfurled – to open out from or as if from a furled state
84. Irate – arising from anger
85. Screeching – a high shrill piercing cry
86. Wreathed – to cause to coil about
87. Squander – disperse, scatter, dissipate
88. Serfs – a member of a servile feudal class bound to the soil and subject to the will of His Lord
89. Vassals – a person on the protection of the feudal Lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty
90. Voles – any of various small rodents
91. Sprawling – to lie thrashing or tossing abate
92. Sojourn – stop
93. Resilient – elastic
94. Cellar – basement
95. Bogs – wet spongy ground
96. Plight – to give in pledge, engagement
97. Pros – in front; pro
98. Cons – on the negative side
99. Demented – mad, insane
100. Rage – a pit of violent wrath
101. Labyrinth – a place constructed of or full of passageways and blind alleys
102. Chipped – to cut or hew by an edge tool
103. Furtive – done by stealth, superstitious
104. Brimming – to be or become fall open to overflowing
105. Aloft – above
106. Floundering – to struggle to move or obtain footing; act clumsily
107. Perilously – dangerous
108. Tyres – tires
109. Half-stunned – half-dazed
110. Bemused – to make confusing
111. Skittered – to glide or skip quickly
112. Slithering – to slide on or as if on a loose gravelly surface
113. Splats – single flat thin ornamental member of a back of a chair
114. Cadaver-white – a dead body in white
115. Squirms – to twist about like a worm; fidgets
116. Unearthed – discovered
117. Morass – swamp
118. Sly – wise in practical affairs
119. Half-grin – half-showing the teeth
120. Naïve – ingenuous, self-taught, primitive
121. Non-plussed – puzzled, perplexed
122. Shroud – obscure
123. Scathing – caustic, harm, injury
124. Mocking – defying, challenging
125. Haul – pull; load
126. Heed – attention, notice
127. Bane – poison, killer, death
128. Ploughed – an implement used to cut, lift or work with a plow
129. Eke out – to make up for the deficiencies of; supplement
130. Panting – gasping
131. Memento – something that serves to warn or remind
132. Gnat – any of usually small dipterans flies
133. Assuage – pacify, quiet, relieve
134. Veritable – not false, unreal or imaginary
135. Chortled – chant exultantly
136. Hobble – an awkward situation
137. Trickled – to issue or fall in drops
138. Scum – extraneous matter or impurities risen to or formed on the surface of a liquid often as a foul filmy covering
139. Stultified – to allege or prove be of unsound mind and hence not responsible
140. Meager – thin
141. Stealthy – secret
142. Quilted – making quilts (stitches)
143. Prised – prized
144. Plummeted – to fall perpendicularly
145. Sprinted – to run or go at high speed especially for a short distance
146. Decrepit – dilapidated, worn-out, run-down
147. Bedlam – lunatic, state of confusion
148. Livid – black-and-blue, enraged, pallid
149. Guttering – material for gutters (used to catch off raining water)
150. Sallow – of a grayish; greenish; yellow color
151. Shunned – to avoid deliberately especially habitually
152. Dented – weakening effect
153. Tapestry – heavy hand-woven reversible textile used for hangings, curtains and upholstery and characterized by complicated pictorial designs
154. Sulking – sullen, silent
155. Edgy – irritable, tense
156. Plumped – abundant, ample
157. Bolster – a long pillow or cushion
158. Aftermath – consequence, result
159. Tendrils – a leaf, stipule or stem modified into a slender spirally coiling sensitive organ serving to attach a climbing plant to its support
160. Coalesced – to unite into a whole, to grow together
161. Becalmed – to keep motionless by lack of wind; to stop the progress
162. Hulks – a heavy clumsy ship; loom
163. Hag – female witch; hobgoblin
164. Wallowing – to roll oneself about in an indolent or ungainly manner
165. Wiles – a trick or stratagem to ensure or deceive
166. Doldrums – spell of listlessness or despondency; part of the ocean near the equator abounding in calms, squalls and light shifting winds
167. Pea-soup – a thick puree made up of peas
168. Giggle – source of amusement
169. Lunatic – insane
170. Lustful – to have an intense desire or joy
171. Seizures – sudden attacks
172. Spittle – spit saliva
173. Slam-bang – unduly loud or violent
174. Dribbled – to issue sporadically or in small bits
175. Baboon – any of a genus of a large gregarious primates of Africa and Southwestern Asia having a long square muzzle
176. Sputtering – to spit or squirt from the mouth with explosive sounds
177. Serpentine – something that winds sinuously
178. Pored – to read studiously or attentively
179. Ambience – a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person or thing
180. Fickle – marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy or stability
181. Cladding – to cover with another metal bonding, sheathe, face
182. Sanctum – sacred place
183. Skylarks – a common largely brown Old World lark noted for its long wings especially as uttered in flight
184. Surly – irritably sullen and churlish in mood or manner; crabbed, arrogant, imperious
185. Bleak – cold, raw
186. Gunmetal – metal used for guns
187. Cobalt – a tough lustrous silver-white magnetic metal element that is related and occurs with iron and nickel that is used especially in alloys
188. Storks – any of various large mostly Old World wading birds that have long stout bills and are related to the ibises and herons
189. Staunch – watertight, sound, faithful
190. Trumps – sounds by trumpets
191. Transmogrified – to change or alter greatly and often with grotesque or humorous effect
192. Conundrums – a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun
193. Ensconced – shelter, conceal, settle
194. Corporeal – substantial
195. Pillage – to plunder ruthlessly
196. Obdurate – stubbornly persistent in wrong doing; hardened in feelings
197. Rear – being at the back
198. Deem – to have an opinion; believe
199. Arcane – secret, mysterious, obscure
200. Verge – to be in transition or change
201. Carouse – to drink liquor freely or deeply
202. Dank – wet
203. Pact – compact
204. Insuperable – incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over or solved
205. Chorea – nervous disorder marked by spasmodic movements of limbs and facial muscles and by in coordination
206. Futile – serving no useful purpose
207. Ramshackle – carelessly or loosely constructed
208. Trudged – a long tiring walk
209. Miniscule – minuscule, one of ancient and medieval writing style developed from cursive and having simplified and small forms
210. Gargantuan – gigantic, colossal
211. Grapple – a contest for superiority or mastery
212. Craggy – rough, ragged
213. Crimson – deep purplish reds
214. Ruse – trick
215. Roved – to join with a slight twist and draw out into roving
216. Weals – well-being
217. Impasse – predicament affording not obvious escape
218. Inexorably – relentless
219. Ordeal – a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control
220. Sonorous – producing sound
221. Harrowing – cultivate, implement set with spikes, spring teeth or disks and used primarily for pulverizing and smoothing the soil
222. Jack-in-the-box – a toy consisting of a small box out of which a figure springs when the lid is raked
223. Array – arrangement, in order
224. Manacles – a shackle for the hand or wrist; handcuff; something used as a restraint
225. Daubed – to cover or coat with soft adhesive matter; plaster; smear
226. Tableaux – a graphic description or representation; picture; striking or artistic grouping
227. Occult – secret, mysterious, concealed
228. Slotted – to cut a slot
229. Minaret – tall slender tower of a mosque having one or more balconies from which the summons to prayer is cried by muezzin
230. Nightmarish – having nightmares
231. Benumbed – to make inactive, dead
232. Diluvia – relating to or brought by flood
233. Sentient – aware
234. Putrefying – to make putrid,
235. Quagmire – a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position; predicament
236. Toil – a net to trap game
237. Ripples – to become lightly ruffled or covered with small waves
238. Leering – suspicious
239. Furies – many fury
240. Dirge – a song or hymn of grief or lamentation
241. Amorphous – having no definite term
242. Simmered – to stew gently below or just at the boiling point
243. Blundering – having a gross error or mistake resulting usually from stupidity, ignorance or carelessness
244. Intricate – complicated, complex
245. Tier – to place or arrange in layers, ranks, rows
246. Snubbed – check or stop with a cutting retort
247. Paraffin – a waxy crystalline flammable substance obtained especially from distillates of wood, coal, petroleum, or shale oil that is a complex mixture of hydrocarbons and is used chiefly in coating and sealing, in candles, in rubber compounding, and in pharmaceuticals including mixtures that are cosmetics
248. Mercurial – having qualities of eloquence
249. Thump – blow or knock with or as if with something blunt or heavy
250. Tack – small short sharp-pointed nail
251. Jostled – to come in contact or collision
252. Rucksacks – knapsacks
253. Parchment – the skin of sheep or goat prepared for writing on
254. Elfin – having an otherworldly or magical quality or charm
255. Trek – to go on a journey
256. Psychopaths – persons having psychopathic personality
257. Brocade – rick oriental sick fabric with raised patterns in gold and silver
258. Sleek – smooth; well-groomed look
259. Dour – stern; harsh
260. Propped – sustain; strengthen
261. Mongrel – an individual resulting from interbreeding of diverse breeds or strains
262. Morgue – a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept
263. Embers – one smoldering in ashes
264. Steeped – to cover with or as if with a plunge
265. Ghouls – a legendary evil being that robs graves and feeds on corpses
266. Bleary-eyed – having the eyes dimmed and watery
267. Enigmatically – resembling an enigma (difficult to understand)
268. Excavating – to form a cavity or hole in
269. Claustrophobic – abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces or places
270. Restive – fidgety, contrary
271. Demeanor – bearing; outward manner
272. Vulnerable – open to attack or damage
273. Profound – something that is very deep
274. Lovelorn – bereft of love or a lover
275. Emboldened – to instill boldness or courage
276. Reek – give off
277. Teetering – to move unsteadily
278. Blotters – a book in which entries are made temporarily pending transfer to permanent record books
279. Awash – flooded
280. Pallid – dull
281. Plodded – to work laboriously
282. Rived – fracture shutter
283. Purged – removal of elements or members regarded as undesirable and especially as treacherous and disloyal
284. Terse – smoothly elegant; polished
285. Straddling – to stand, sit or walk with legs wide apart
286. Mayhap – perhaps
287. Swerved – to turn aside abruptly
288. Jape – something designed to arouse amusement
289. Quaking – to shake or vibrate usually by shock or instability
290. Hasp – any of several devices for fastening
291. Heretics – nonconformists
292. Pontiff – bishop, pope
293. Garner – to gather in storage
294. Lauding – praising, acclaiming
295. Pilloried – to expose to public contempt, ridicule or scorn
296. Oaths – a solemn attestation of truth and inviolability of one’s words
297. Foes – adversary; opponent
298. Faltered – to walk unsteadily; stumble
299. Fiend – fanatic; addict
300. Chassis – the frame and working parts exclusive of the body or housing
301. Myriad – innumerable
302. Scoured – to move about quickly especially in research
303. Shank – part of the leg between the knee and ankle
304. Cowls – to cover with or as if with a long hooded cloak especially as of a monk
305. Unmown – unable to knockdown
306. Wench – prostitute
307. Evinced – capable of being overcome or subdued
308. Gobbled – to make the natural guttural voice
309. Hounded – to drive or affect by persistent harassing; baited
310. Kin – group of persons of common ancestors
311. Writhed – intertwined
312. Tussocks – a compact tuft especially of grass or sedge; also: an area of raised solid ground in a marsh or bog that is bound together by roots of low vegetation
313. Tingling – to feel a stinging, prickling, or thrilling sensation
314. Mantras – mystical formula of invocation or incantation; watchword
315. Pestilence – something that is destructive or pernicious
316. Potency – ability or capacity to achieve or bring about a particular result
317. Eschewed – to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds; escape
318. Hunching – thrust or bend over into a humped or crooked position
319. Thrummed – monotonous sound
320. Nuzzled – to work with or as if with a nose
321. Lugubrious – exaggerated or affectedly mournful
322. Saplings – the young trees
323. Stygian – referring to the river Styx; dark; gloomy or forbidding
324. Realm – primary marine or terrestrial
325. Shackle – something that confines with the legs or arms
326. Tarry – to abide or stay in or at place
327. Tweak – to pinch and pull with a sudden jerk or twist; twitch
328. Verdigris – a green or greenish blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates
329. Bifurcations – to cause to divide into two branches or parts
330. Bloodhound – a person keen in pursuit
331. Slabs – thick, vicious
332. Chiseled – to cut or work with or as if with a chisel
333. Clench – to set, or close tightly
334. Stench – stink
335. Gangrene – become gangrenous (local death of soft tissues due to the lack of blood supply)
336. Camphor – a tough gummy volatile crystalline compound C10H16O obtained especially from the wood and bark from the camphor tree and used as a liniment and mild tropical analgesic in medicine; as a plasticizer, and as an insect repellant
337. Mildewed – discoloration caused by fungi
338. Haughty – nothing
339. Interminable – to have no end; wearisomely; protracted
340. Imminent – ready to take place
341. Obliterating – to remove uttering from recognition or memory
342. Coursing – to follow close upon; pursue
343. Birch woods – any of a genus of monoccious deciduous usually short-lived trees or shrubs having small petioled leaves and typically a layered membranous outer bark that peels readily
344. Farthings – former British monetary unit equal to ¼ of a penny
345. Filleting – to cut into fillets (strips)
346. Pickaxe – pick
347. Pistons – a sliding piece mold by or moving against fluid pressure which usually consists of a short cylinder fitting within the cylindrical vessel along which it moves back and forth
348. Telepathy – a communication from one mind to another by extrasensory means
349. Tick – run; check
350. Trove – a valuable collection; treasure, discovery
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