“In the little mortuary he told me that he’d come to the home because he was _____________________”

“In Paris, they keep vigil over the body for three, sometimes four days. But here you barely have time to get used to the idea before you have to start running after the hearse.” In this sentence "vigil" means:

“‘She’s got an abscess.’ I didn’t understand, so I looked over at the nurse and saw that she had a bandage wrapped around her head just below the eyes.” In this sentence "abscess" means:

“She needed someone to look after her. You earn only a modest salary. And the truth of the matter is, she was happier here.” In this sentence, "modest" means:

“The truck passed us and we ran after it. I was engulfed by the noise and the dust." In this sentence, "engulfed" most closely means:

Define the bold-faced word. “Then, without turning around, he answered with a kind of suppressed rage, ‘He’s always there.’”

Define the bold-faced word: “He was with his dog. The two of them have been inseparable for eight years. The spaniel has a disease--mange”

Define the bold-faced word. “First he lit his paraffin lamp, then he took a pretty dubious-looking bandage out of his pocket and wrapped it around his right hand.”

Define the word in bold: “The cop told him to knock it off and said that the girl was to go and he was to stay in his room and wait to be summoned to the police station.”

Define the word in bold. “Then from a drawer in his night table he took out a sheet of paper, a yellow envelope, a small red pen box, and a square bottle with purple ink in it. When he told me the woman’s name I realized she was Moorish.”

“He was looking all over the place, turning around, peering into the darkness of the entryway, muttering incoherently, and then he started searching the street again with his little red eyes.” In this sentence, the bold-faced word most clearly means....

“He told me he wanted to talk to me about a plan of his that was still pretty vague.” Define the word in bold.

“Then I told her about my boss’s proposition and she said she’d love to see Paris.” Define the word in bold.

“She took off her jacket, sat down, and studied the menu feverishly.” Define the word in bold.

“Since the magazine was about a dozen pages long, she meticulously continued this task throughout the meal.” Define the word in bold.

“Before we reached the edge of the plateau, we could already see the motionless sea and, farther out, a massive, drowsy-looking promontory in the clear water.” Define the word in bold:

“...I noticed that he had a habit of finishing everything he said with ‘and I’d even say’... I didn’t pay any more attention to this mannerism of his...” Define the word in bold.

“All I could feel were the cymbals of sunlight crashing on my forehead and, indistinctly, the dazzling spear flying up from the knife in front of me.” Define the word in bold: