GLOSSARY "THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA" CHAPTER 10

-CLEANSE: To free from, for example, dirt or guilt.

-DRESSER: A chest of drawers often supporting a mirror and typically used for holding clothes and personal items.

-DUTY: An act or a course that is required of one by position, social custom, law or religion.

-MAHOGANY: The wood of different kinds of tropical American trees.

-SWAY: To incline or bend to one side.

-WRAP: To arrange or fold something as cover or protection.

-TIGHTEN: Fixed or fastened firmly in place.

-SIDESHOW: A small show offered in addition to the main attraction, as at a circus.

-DEED: Something that is carried out.

-BRASS: A yellowish alloy of copper and zinc, sometimes including small amounts of other materials.

GLOSSARY "THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA" CHAPTER 9

-DROWN: To die by submerging and suffocating in water or another liquid.

-FATE: The supposed force, principle or power that predetermines events.

-HANDLE: A part that is designed to be held or operated with the hand.

-PARCHED: Dried out of extreme heat.

-WOUND: An injury to the feelings.

-SELF-PITY: A feeling of sorrow over your own suffering.

-SPIT: The act of expectorating.

-STOPPER: A device, such as a cork or plug, that is inserted to close an opening.

-GUNPOWDER: Any of various explosive powders used to propel projectiles from guns, especially a black mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulphur.

-REDUCE: To bring down, as in extent, amount or degree.

GLOSSARY "THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA" CHAPTER 8

-AROUSE: To cause someone to be active, attentive or exited.

-BARN: A large farm building used for storing farm products and sheltering livestock.

-CONCEAL: To keep from being discovered or observed.

-FOOL: One who is deficient in judgement, sense or understanding.

-SOB: To weep aloud with convulsive gasping.

-HESITATE: To pause or wait in uncertainty.

-SCAR: A mark left on the skin after a surface injury or wound has healed.

-SCORN: Contempt or disdain felt toward a person or object considered despicable.

-THUD: A dull sound, as that of a heavy object striking a solid surface.

-CRAWL: To move slowly on the hands and knees or by dragging the body along the ground.

-LAD: A boy or young man.

-RACK: A framework or stand in or on which to hold, hang or display various articles.

-SHAH: Used formerly as a title for the hereditary monarch of Iran.

GLOSSARY "THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA" CHAPTER 7

-BALCONY: A gallery that projects over the main floor in a theatre or auditorium.

-BULLET: An object resembling a projectile in shape, action, or effect.

-CHASE: To follow rapidly in order to catch or overtake.

-NUDGE: A gentle push.

-REGAIN: To recover possession of something lost or taken away.

-PITIFUL: Filled with pity or compassion.

-FROWN: To wrinkle the brow, as in thought or displeasure.

-SLUMP: To fall or sink heavily.

-DISTORT: To twist out of a proper or natural relation of parts.

-SCAMPER: To run or go lightly and quickly.

-BELOVED: Dearly loved.

-CLATTER: A rattling sound.

-STOCKY: Solidly built.