Monkey's Paw / Third Wish Vocabulary

welcoming to guests

• presumptuous

• hospitable

• malicious

• apathy

idea your future is decided

• interfere

• radical

• fate

• frivolous

to try to stop something

• interfere

• trifle

• scurrying

• pounds

to give something

• inquire

• cease

• credulity

• grant

serious

• grave

• frivolous

• liability

• radical

to ask a question

• compensation

• inquire

• extricate

• vivid

object that has powers or luck

• pounds

• talisman

• grave

• outskirts

something small or unimportant

• hospitable

• malicious

• trifle

• vivid

very clear and colorful

• vivid

• frivolous

• liability

• cease

payment given for service or loss

• grave

• malicious

• compensation

• radical