big one noun
"The house ... would go for two hundred big ones now."

closet adjective
"a closet reader ... during her years in the limelight as a dancer"

conflicted adjective
"this unhappy and conflicted modern woman"

fatty adjective
"a short fatty woman in black"

hostly adjective
"... still so young-looking that people did not instinctively lay upon him hostly duties"

jazz noun
"I love sailing ... that wind, and the waves, and all that jazz."

muddle noun
"... the shelves in ascending degrees of muddle covered the wall."

nest noun
"it had become a nest of empty paint jars"

quizzically adverb
"sitting with her ... head quizzically tilted"

shrug off verb
"she shrugged it off, draped it over the electric jigsaw"

sick adjective
"a sick skin"

side noun
"tacking ... bunting to the front and sides of the platform"

spray noun
"... spray cast up when the heavy rain pounded the flat porch rail"

susurration noun
"susurration alone could not alter the proportionate emphasis of vowel over consonant"

worry verb
"Lucas worried off the cap"