Vocabulary

2. a sudden involuntary muscular contraction or convulsive movement.
3. make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense.
6. raise levels of physiological or nervous activity in (the body or any biological system).
7. prevent (something or someone) from moving or operating as normal.
9. prod (someone) gently with one's elbow in order to attract attention.
10. pay no attention to; ignore.
12. a charge or claim that someone has done something illegal or wrong.
14. used to emphasize a strong desire to do or have something.
15. not able to be tolerated or endured.

1. giving the worrying impression that something bad is going to happen; threateningly inauspicious.
4. the state or situation of being alone.
5. in and understand fully (information or ideas).
8. a sudden strong and unreflective urge or desire to act.
11. resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points.
13. carelessly coat or smear (a surface) with a thick or sticky substance.