chapter 8 vocab
grotesque
disturbingly ugly, twisted, or unnatural
indiscernible
impossible to perceive clearly
redolent
having a strong smell
pretense
an act or appearance that looks real but is false
stratum
one of many layers of a substance
interminable
seeming to have no end
garrulous
talkative in a rambiling or tedious manner
fortuitously
happening by luck
malice
the desire to see others suffer
melancholy
a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed