Blizzard of Glass

VOCABULARY

Morgue

• A place where the bodies of dead people are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy

Stevedore

• Individual engaged in the loading or unloading of a vessel

Tsunami

• A great sea wave; tidal wave

Scaffold

• Temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building

Wafted

• To float or be carried, especially through the air

Coroner

• Usually an elected public official whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes

Smudgy

• Smeared; smoky

Recluse

• One who withdraws from society; solitary

Captivated

• Irresistible appeal; to capture and hold the attention

Sufficient

• Adequate for the purpose; enough

Flounder

• To struggle to move or obtain footing; to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually

Hawser

• A heavy rope for mooring or towing

Seamstress

• A woman whose occupation is sewing

Maelstrom

• A restless, disordered, or tumultuous state of affairs

Moored

• To secure (a ship, boat, dirigible, etc.) in a particular place, as by cables and anchors or by lines

Millinery

• Women’s apparel for the head; hatmaking

Dismembered

• To cut off or disjoin the limbs, members or parts of the body

Munitions

• Materials used in war, especially weapons and ammunition

Diversity

• Variety

Stoke

• To poke, stir up, and feed (a fire)

Wharf

• A structure built on the shore of or projecting into a harbor so that vessels may be moored alongside to load or unload or to lie at rest; pier

Bustled

• To move or act with a great show of energy

Convoy

• Accompany; to escort for protection

Marred

• To detract from the perfection of something; spoil; mark

Hysteria

• Behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess