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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