enclosed within an alien land

Having or showing calmness in a crisis

Loss of courage in the face of trouble

Talking or behaving in a very direct, brief, and unfriendly way

Of momentous significance

Impossible to deny or disprove

To be filled with courage or strength of purpose

a flatterer; one who fawns on others in order to gain favour

An act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct; an offence

Territory enclosed within an alien land

Scornful

Having or showing a wish to harm someone because you think that they harmed you

Impossible to deny or disprove

A natural ability to do something

A minor wrongdoing

To stop or interrupt (someone) and detain them in conversation or trouble them in some other way

Processes, causes, and effects of a disease; abnormality

people who take the law into their own hands

a single-celled animal that catches food and moves about by extending fingerlike projections of protoplasm.

Modest and reserved in manner or behavior

percussion instrument

bitter, sharp in taste or temper

foul-smelling; putrid

affected by or associated with nausea or vomiting

he wants to demonstrate attributes Jeffrey and Charlie each represent

to entertain the audience

he loves superheroes

to associate those characters and their characteristics with the characters in the novel

to flesh out the character's world

to create the setting - time and place

All of the above