| fusillade | simultaneous firing of weapons |
| contagion | spreading of a disease |
| precipitate | cause to happen |
| silhouette | figure seen against a light background |
| apparition | anything that appears unexpectedly |
| reverberation | reechoed sound |
| insensate | not capable of feeling sensation |
| exultant | triumphant |
| imminent | likely to happen soon |
| desist | stop |
| avail | take advantage of |
| torrent | very heavy fall of rain |
| repugnance | distaste |
| conveyance | transport or carrier |