The Collector p.9-52

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• connoisseur person who thinks only the best is good enough
• gills what a fish uses to breathe
• good riddance to express pleasure of getting rid of something
• conscience the sense of moral goodness
• immoral outside of society's standard or acceptance
• clerk person working in an office
• aspirations ambitions
• cabinet locker
• cottage cabin
• estate agent realtor
• inquisitive curious, nosy
• arched curved
• contemporary things happening now or recently
• facetiousness humorous
• gormless stupid
• humble modest
• huff a fit of petty annoyance
• lavatory toilet
• incinerator an oven for burning trash
• gusty strong winds
• absence nonappearance
• groan moan
• budge to move very slightly
• cutlery knives and forks
• anasthetic drug used to put someone to sleep
• bothered disturbed
• feeble weak, pale
• horrid disgusting
• curt unfriendly, grim
• grave serious
• concerned worried
• distinguished marked as different, a distinctive feature
• appealing something that draws favourable attention
• chivalrous gallant, honourable
• emphatic forceful and definite in expression and action
• dainty delightful
• exhibition a public showing of e.g. arts
• increasingly more and more
• gloat to laugh at someone else's misfortune
• bargain negotiate
• cunning smart
• aberrations abnormalities
• twitch jerk
• impatient restless or short of temper
• furnishing the act of decorating a room
• arrangements plans for the future
• to fleece to cheat someone

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