Vocabulary: the Monkey's Paw

perils

• danger

• security

• adventure

placidly

• quietly

• gently

• violently

let

• abandoned

• rented

• remaining

rubicund of visage

• gray-haired

• red-faced

• pale-skinned

doughty

• boring

• unusual

• brave

presumptuous

• overconfident

• preppy

• modest

keenly

• angrily

• casually

• intensely

talisman

• charm

• voodoo doll

• jewels

credulity

• belief

• ignorance

• foolishness

prosaic

• ordinary

• exciting

• creative