meddle：　to interfere, to intrude

mend：　 to repair

mirth：　 being merry and happy

nausea：　feeling of sickness

neglect：　pay no attention to

nocturnal：　of or in the night

obese：　 very fat

obsolete：　no longer useful, outdated

perch：　 take up a high position

pervade：　spread through every part of

petulant：　unreasonably impatient or irritable

pillage：　plunder (esp in war)

presumptuoustoo bold or self-confident

quashed ：　annuled

quenching：satisfy, put an end to, put out

refurbished make clean, as if like new

rejoicing：　happiness, joy

reticent：　in the habit of saying little　reverberate be sent back, again and again

rigor：　sternness, strictness, severe conditions

rotundity：　state of being round

salvage：　the saving of property from loss

scattered：　not situated together

shatter：　to break into many pieces

shunned：　avoided, kept away from

sketchy：　shortly, roughly, quickly

sporadic：　happening from time to time

stifled：　suppressed, kept back