Abrupt
Sudden
Barren
Empty
Contriving
Scheming, planning
Epitaph
Short verse or phrase inscribed on a headstone
Eternal
Lasting forever, enduring
Gingham
A cotton fabric, usually striped or checked
Highboy
A tall chest of drawers
Incubator
Apparatus in which eggs are hatched artificially
Livery
A business that rents out horses (or automobiles, nowadays)
Lugubrious
Mournful, dismal
Miser
A stingy, money-grubbing person
Patent
An invention or product that the government ensures will only be sold or manufactured by a particular individual or company for a certain number of years
Phosphate
A carbonated drink with fruit syrup
Proscenium
The arch that separates the stage from the audience
Rheumatism
Pain and stiffness in the back and joints, accompanying old age
Sacrament
A Christian rite that symbolizes or confers grace upon the Christian individual and his community. In Catholicism, the seven sacraments are baptism, communion, the Eucharist, matrimony, penance, holy orders, and extreme unction.
Superstition
A belief in the ominous significance of certain symbols or occurences
Tableau
A scene frozen in action
Trellis
Archway, often with flowers
unobtrusively
Not getting in the way, unnoticed
Vacant
Empty, unoccupied
