night vocabulary

penury

severe poverty

waif

a stray person or animal, especially a homeless child

billeted

to assign lodging to (as soldiers) by military order

jubilant

feeling or expressing great joy

surreptitiously

doing something secretly in order to avoid detection

surreal

marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream

conflagration

a large, disastrous fire

farce

an empty or especially ridiculous act, proceeding, or situation

crematorium

a furnace that is used to burn bodies into ashes

irrevocably

in a way that is unalterable

hermetically

in a way that is airtight

harangued

to address in a ranting speech

leprous

infected with leprosy

veritable

being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary (often used to express the aptness of a metaphor)

untenable

unable to be defended

manacled

shackled in handcuffs

automatons

a mechanism that is relatively self-operating, especially a robot

plaintive

expressive of suffering or woe