Vocabulary

= Vocabulary =

1. Tenants-people who live in or occupy an apartment. Pg.1 Then one day (it happened to be the fourth of July), a most uncommon - looking do delivery boy rode around town slipping letters under the chosen tenants- to- be.

2. Exclusive-reserved for a particular people, one of a kind. Pg.2 Exclusive neighborhood, near great schools.

3. Plush-deep carpeting, notably luxurious Pg.3 Gorgeous, Mrs. Wexler replied, clutching her husbands arm as her high heels wobbled in the deep plush pile.

4. Stationary-materials for writing like letter paper with envelopes. Pg.3 And she'd have stationary made- blue with a deckle edge, her name and fancy address in swirling type across the top: Grace Windsor Wexler, Sunset Towers on the lake shore.

5. Warped-to turn or twist out of shape. Pg.4 Arriving in the late afternoon, Sydelle Pulaski looked up and saw only the dim, warped reflections of treetops and drifting clouds in the glass. face of Sunset Towers.

6. Chandeliers-a light fixture suspend from a ceiling. Pg.2 See those chandeliers?Crystal!

7. Alcove-a nook or small recces opening opening off a larger room. Pg.5 In one day he had rented all of Sunset Towers to people whose names were already printed on the mailboxes in an alcove off the lobby.

8. Bookie-someone who organizes bets or deals illegally. Pg.5 And oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake.

9. Corpse-a dead body. Pg. They say his corpse is still up there in that big old house.

10. Pudgy-small and short. Pg.10 Startled by the small cry, Flora Baumbach dropped the pin from her pudgy fingers and almost swallowed the three in her mouth.