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Abrupt: Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.

Antique: Old, used especially of furniture and household items; out of date.

Browse: To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand.

Espresso: A concentrated coffee beverage brewed by forcing hot water under high pressure through finely ground coffee.

Footnote: A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text

Frantic: In a state of panic, worry, frenzy or rush.

Patience: Calm,able to tolerate things without complaint.

Pharaoh: The supreme ruler of ancient Egypt; a formal address for the sovereign seat of power as personified by the 'king' in an institutional role of Horus son of Osiris; often used by metonymy for Ancient Egyptian sovereignty

Quarry: A site for mining stone, limestone or slate.

Sari: The traditional dress of women in the Indian Subcontinent; an outer garment consisting of a single length of cotton or silk, most often with one end wrapped around the waist to form a skirt, the other draped over the shoulder or head.

Sawhorse: A device used to temporarily raise and support pieces of material (for example, timber), especially during cutting with a saw or similar device.

Stroll: A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.

Topaz: a yellowish-brown color, like that of the gemstone.

Urgency: The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.

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