Stone Mattress - Margaret Atwood

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• Mattress the part of a bed, made of a strong cloth cover filled with firm material, that makes the bed comfortable to lie on.
• Algae very simple, usually small plants that grow in or near water and do not have ordinary leaves or roots.
• Cushion a bag made of cloth, plastic, or leather that is filled with soft material, often has an attractive cover, and is used especially on chairs for sitting or leaning on.
• Fossilized having become a fossil (= something preserved in rock for a very long period).
• Clad (of people) dressed, or (of things) covered.
• Apraising to examine someone or something in order to judge their qualities, success, or needs.
• Arduous difficult, needing a lot of effort and energy.
• Burr a very small, round seed container that sticks to clothes and to animals' fur because it is covered in little hooks.
• Solitary A solitary person or thing is the only person or thing in a place.
• Cherish to love, protect, and care for someone or something that is important to you.
• Perch to be in a high position or in a position near the edge of something, or to put something in this position.
• Buttress a structure made of stone or brick that sticks out from and supports a wall of a building.
• Pucker to tighten skin or cloth until small folds appear or (of skin or cloth) to form small folds.
• Finesse (verb) to deal with a situation or a person in a skilful and often slightly dishonest way.
• Tennyson a 19th century, Brittish poet.
• Dab to touch something with quick light touches, or to put a substance on something with quick light touches:
• Scent a pleasant natural smell.
• Attentive listening carefully.
• Earnest sincere and serious.
• Substantial large in size, value, or importance.
• Phallic representing, shaped like, or relating to male genitals.
• Preposterous very silly or stupid.
• Lopsided with one side bigger, higher, etc. than the other; not equally balanced.
• Insignificant small or not noticeable, and therefore not considered important.
• Carnation (a plant with) a small flower with a sweet smell, usually white, pink, or red in colour.
• Strenuous needing or using a lot of physical or mental effort or energy.
• Meek quiet, gentle, and not willing to argue or express your opinions in a forceful way.
• To gloat to feel or express great pleasure or satisfaction because of your own success or good luck, or someone else's failure or bad luck.
• Decampment to depart secretly or suddenly.
• Convertible a car with a soft roof that can be folded back.
• Mickey of rye liquor.
• Catatonic If someone is catatonic, they are stiff and not moving or reacting, as if dead.
• Invulnerable impossible to damage or hurt in any way.
• Smuttiness sexual material or behaviour which some people find offensive.
• Leer to look at someone in a sexually interested way.
• Unwed not married.
• Outskirts the areas that form the edge of a town or city.
• Delinquents a person, usually young, who behaves in a way that is illegal or not acceptable to most people.
• Chore a job or piece of work that is often boring or unpleasant but needs to be done regularly.
• A bout a brief period of illness or involvement in an activity.
• Jettison to get rid of something or someone that is not wanted or needed.
• Solicitous showing care and helpful attention to someone.
• Tusk either of the two long, pointed teeth of some animals such as elephants.
• Liposuction an operation in which fat is sucked out from under the skin.
• Bygone belonging to or happening in a past time.
• Ridge a long, narrow raised part of a surface, especially a high edge along a mountain.
• Gauze a very thin, light cloth, used to make clothing, to cover cuts and to separate solids from liquids, etc..
• Lichen a grey, green, or yellow plant-like organism that grows on rocks, walls, and trees.
• Caper to run and jump about in an energetic, happy way.
• Victorian belonging to, made in, or living in the time when Queen Victoria was queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1837–1901).

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