House of Hollow: Chapters 15–19

by Krystal Sutherland
When Iris's eldest sister goes missing, she, her middle sister, and her eldest sister's boyfriend search for her, but they risk learning more than they want to about a haunting and mysterious incident from the sisters' past.

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  1. resounding
    unmistakable; clearly revealed to the mind or judgment
    The show had been a resounding success, but I didn’t feel like celebrating.
  2. squalid
    foul and run-down and repulsive
    She was tangle-haired and squalid, her hands and bare feet thick with grime.
  3. tincture
    a medicine consisting of an extract in an alcohol solution
    The girl tore a strip from the bottom of her dress and soaked it in the puddle of leftover tincture.
  4. anachronism
    a person who seems to be displaced in time
    In his floral shirt and leopard print coat, he was an anachronism set against the cobbled road and stone houses.
  5. revulsion
    intense aversion
    I didn’t know what to do with that, except swallow my revulsion and lean back against the wall.
  6. pique
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
    The Minotaur appeared in Dante’s Inferno, which piqued my interest—it was one of Grey’s favorite books—but the mention was brief, and Dante and Virgil passed by it quickly.
  7. opportunistic
    taking advantage of any circumstance of possible benefit
    My theory: The girls walked ahead of their parents, took a wrong turn, got lost, then got found by an opportunistic predator who got cold feet a month later.
  8. cold feet
    timidity preventing the continuation of a course of action
    My theory: The girls walked ahead of their parents, took a wrong turn, got lost, then got found by an opportunistic predator who got cold feet a month later.
  9. preoccupied
    deeply absorbed in thought
    I had ached to be older. To be finished with university, to have a career, to be preoccupied with the small stresses of daily life that adults were always complaining about.
  10. congeal
    solidify, thicken, or come together
    It congealed the baby odor into something oily and solid.
  11. usurp
    take the place of
    The clean scent of Edinburgh —grass and sea and stone—was usurped by smoke and wild animal and rot.
  12. ossify
    become bony
    Though his body had ossified and his skin had the texture of rough-hewn stone, there was still something locked away inside him.
  13. traverse
    journey across or pass over
    Here, the tree branches sagged into the shallows, making the terrain hard to traverse.
  14. putrefaction
    a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
    The forest crept in and around them, tearing them apart, but they also rotted from inside, sagging into the water, their walls collapsing into soft masses of putrefaction.
  15. haunch
    the upper thigh and back of the hip in human beings
    I knelt back on my haunches and held the stiff garments in my arms like children, searching, searching, searching my memory for what they meant.
Created on Fri Jul 03 04:20:16 EDT 2026 (updated Tue Jul 28 12:47:05 EDT 2026)

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