q('superciliously#this is how you treat or talk to someone you consider inferior to you  [how Raghu reacts on finding Manu so quickly and easily]');
q('sepulchral#dark, gloomy, like a tomb [describes the trees as light fades at the end of the day]');
q('mortuary#a place where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation [a metaphor for the shed full of old broken things]');
q('temerity#bravery [what Ravi shows when he enters the dark shed]');
q('lugubrious#heavy, slow, without energy [a description of the funeral game that the children are playing at the end]');
q('defunct#no longer working or usable [describes the broken objects in the dark shed]');
q('ignominy#shame [how Ravi feels when he realizes the others have forgotten him]');
q('hirsute#covered in hair [describes Raghu´s legs as Ravi sees them from his hiding place]');
q('lividity#brightness, life and lightness [the flowers no longer have this at the end of the day]');
q('contemplated#considered, thought about [i.e., whether he should leave the shed or not]');