communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.

HE WAS QUIT A MOMENT,EXPECTING SOME COMMENT ON HIS DISCOURSE.

TO CAUTION, ADVISE, OR COUNSEL AGAINST SOMETHING.

TJ EYES ROAMED THE LENGTH OF THE ROOM,THEN HE ADMONISHED.

pretended; sham; counterfeit: feigned enthusiasm.

AND THE 3 OF US FORCED OURSELVES TO STARE INTO THE FIRE IN FEIGNED .

a maneuver or stratagem, as in conversation, to gain the advantage.

BUT WHY ASKED LITTLE MAN,FORGETTING OUR PLOY.

STACEY REMAINED ALOOF AND HAD LITTLE TO DO WITH HIM.

STACEY REMAINED ALOOOF AND HAD LITTLE TO DO WITH HIM.

JUDICIOUS IN ONE'S CONDUCT OR SPEECH,

THEN,AS DISCREETLY AS I COULD,I SAID,"WHATS THE MATTER WITH YOU.

disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious: haughty aristocrats; a haughty salesclerk.

"YOU DONT HAVE TO GET SNIPPETY ABOUT IT"REPLIED T.J. HAUGHTILY.

harsh; throaty

THERE WAS NO RECOGNIZABLE ANSWER,ONLY AN INHUMAN GUTTURAL WHEZZING.

WITHERED; SHRIVELED: A WIZENED OLD MAN; WIZENED FEATURES.

THE SKIN WAS SCARRED,BURNED,AND THE LIPS WERE WIZENED BLACK.