Vocabulary

• best known: Most widely or popularly recognized, famous, or familiar.
• after all: In spite of what was expected; used to introduce a statement that supports a previous statement or explains why it was made
• thanks to: Because of; as a result of.
• in one sitting: All at one time; without interruption.
• at least: As a minimum
• from the dead: Returned to life after being dead.
• as we know it: In the form or way commonly understood or accepted.
• to the moon: Increasing quickly and significantly, often in value or excitement.
• account of: A spoken or written description of an event.
• bring to: To make someone to wake up from being unconscious
• check out
• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• empathy: Understanding how other people feel/suffer
• poverty: State of being poor
• versatile: Having many uses or skills
• intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
• reputation: Common opinion that people have about someone
• identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
• career: Particular occupation in professional life
• inspiration: Force making you feel you can do things, succeed
• contribute: To be a factor in causing something to happen
• grief: Feeling of great sadness because someone has died
• explore: To examine something in detail to learn about it
• stare: To look at someone or something for a long time
• victim: Person/thing affected by an unpleasant event
• confront: To make someone, e.g. who has lied, face the truth
• moral: In a way considered proper and good by most people
• resist: To not be affected by e.g. a force or an effect
• adventure: An exciting and often dangerous experience
• attention: Taking notice of someone or something
• form: Sports team or person's current winning record
• effect: An advantage, benefit
• anticipate: To expect or look ahead to something positively
• innovative: Having or using new methods or ideas
• genre: Category of art, music with its own qualities
• tender: Gentle; with great care or consideration
• haunt: To remain in the mind causing worry, sadness, pain
• fiction: Made-up stories; imagined events
• sink: To push something down into the ground
• frequently: Often; regularly
• relate: To demonstrate a logical relationship between
• fame: (Person, thing) being well-known by many people
• mystery: Quality of being strange and not understood
• chamber: Enclosed space that contains something
• observation: Remark or comment on something you noticed
• tale: Story that is not true
• patient: Not getting annoyed when things take a long time
• violence: Strong physical force of nature
• genius: Person displaying a high level of intelligence
• destruction: Act of destroying; damaging beyond repair
• singular: Form of a word referring to only one person/thing
• protagonist: Main character in a story
• corpse: A dead body
• suit: To be appropriate for a given situation
• popular: Liked or enjoyed by many people
• tuberculosis: Disease affecting especially the lungs
• trance: Daydreaming state; unaware state
• unity: Being in full agreement; being joined together
• pendulum: Weight on chain/cord swinging from a fixed point
• cardinal: Of the greatest importance; paramount
• story: One of many floors or levels in a building
• deduction: Reaching of a conclusion by using reasoning
• dark: Of a color that is not light
• propensity: Natural tendency to behave in a particular way
• short: (Of electric circuit) to spark because faulty
• opium: Addictive drug made from the seeds of a poppy
• top: To be higher or larger than a specific value
• supernatural: Being unable to be explained by natural causes
• write: To compose letters and words on paper or a screen
• ghastly: Frightening or horrible to the senses
• morgue: Place to store dead bodies before they are buried
• killer: Something that is a challenge to deal with
• wife: Married woman
• reader: Easy and simple book to teach people to read
• bird: Animal with feathers that uses wings to fly
• macabre: Suggesting death or violence in a weird way
• nineteenth: 19th