- 1. Monkeys Paw Vocabulary
- 2. avaricious Greedy for riches
- 3. credulity tendency to believe too readily
- 4. doughty brave; valiant
- 5. furtively secretly, stealthily
- 6. fusillade something like the rapid firing of many
firearms
- 7. maligned spoken ill of
- 8. prosaic commonplace; ordinary