1. Blizzard of Glass VOCABULARY

2. Morgue A place where the bodies of dead people are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy

3. Stevedore Individual engaged in the loading or unloading of a vessel

4. Tsunami A great sea wave; tidal wave

5. Scaffold Temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building

6. Wafted To float or be carried, especially through the air

7. Coroner Usually an elected public official whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes

8. Smudgy Smeared; smoky

9. Recluse One who withdraws from society; solitary

10. Captivated Irresistible appeal; to capture and hold the attention

11. Sufficient Adequate for the purpose; enough

12. Flounder To struggle to move or obtain footing; to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually

13. Hawser A heavy rope for mooring or towing

14. Seamstress A woman whose occupation is sewing

15. Maelstrom A restless, disordered, or tumultuous state of affairs

16. Moored To secure (a ship, boat, dirigible, etc.) in a particular place, as by cables and anchors or by lines

17. Millinery Women’s apparel for the head; hatmaking

18. Dismembered To cut off or disjoin the limbs, members or parts of the body

19. Munitions Materials used in war, especially weapons and ammunition

20. Diversity Variety

21. Stoke To poke, stir up, and feed (a fire)

22. Wharf A structure built on the shore of or projecting into a harbor so that vessels may be moored alongside to load or unload or to lie at rest; pier

23. Bustled To move or act with a great show of energy

24. Convoy Accompany; to escort for protection

25. Marred To detract from the perfection of something; spoil; mark

26. Hysteria Behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess