Lurid
"And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars (page 3)."
- Causing horror or shock.
Concertina
"Imagine him here- the very end of the world, a sea the color of lead, a sky the color of smoke, a kind of ship as rigid as a concertina- and going up this river with stores, or orders, or what you like (page 5)."
-A musical instrument similar to an accordion.
Sepulchre
"In a very few hours I arrived in a city that always makes me think of a whited sepulchre (page 10)."
-A burial place, such as a mausoleum.
Somnambulist
"The slim one got up and walked straight at me- still knitting with downcast eyes- and only just as I began to think of getting out of her way, as you would for a somnambulist, stood still, and looked up (page 9-10)."
-One who sleepwalks.
Volubility
One of them, a stout, excitable chap with black mustaches, informed me with great volubility and many digressions, as soon as I told him who I was, that my steamer was at the bottom of the river (page 26)."
-Talking rapidly or with a lot of energy.
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