Chapter16

1.euphoria

N-UNCOUNT Euphoria is a feeling of intense happiness and excitement.

2.sultry

ADJ Sultry weather is hot and damp.

3.squid

N-COUNT A squid is a sea creature with a long soft body and many soft arms called tentacles.

4.propel

V-T To propel something in a particular direction means to cause it to move in that direction.

5.entice

V-T To entice someone to go somewhere or to do something means to try to persuade them to go to that place or to do that thing.

5.quagmire

N-COUNT A quagmire is a difficult, complicated, or unpleasant situation which is not easy to avoid or escape from.

6.tether

V-T If you tether an animal or object to something, you attach it there with a rope or chain so that it cannot move very far.

7.trance

N-COUNT A trance is a state of mind in which someone seems to be asleep and to have no conscious control over their thoughts or actions, but in which they can see and hear things and respond to commands given by other people.

8.berserk

ADJ Berserk means crazy and out of control.

9.stay put

(idiomatic) To remain in one fixed place