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Glossary

Druggist: Pharmacist 

Entrepreneur: A person who organizes and manages any enterprise

Eavesdropper: A person who listens secretly to a private conversation

Technicolor: a brand name for a system of making color motion pictures by means of superimposing the three primary colors to produce a final colored print

Siren: A seductively beautiful or charming woman, especially one who beguiles men

Loathsome: Disgusting, revolting

Evict: Expel a person from a land or home

Foreclose: To deprive a person the right to reclaim his or her property usually because of failure to make on mortgage 

Buzzard: A Cantankerous person

Cantankerous: Disagreeable to deal with

Galling: Chafing, vexing, exasperating

Measly: Contumely small, meager, or slight

Gander: A look

Riffraff: people, or a group of people, regarded as disreputable or worthless

Warped: Distorted from the truth 

Bawl: Shout or yell at unrestrainedly 

Mull: To ponder

Panhandle: To accost passer-bys

Deficit: The amount by which a sum of money falls short the required amount

 

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