The Landlady

1.

Swanky: The new family had done up their house, it looked swanky because of the posh exterior.

Definition: Imposingly fashionable and elegant.

Congenial: The iPad was congenial and awesome as well.

Definition: Suitable to your needs.

Rapacious: The taxi driver was rapacious to foreigners when asking for money.

Definition: Excessively greedy and grasping.

Dither: He was dithering when deciding what to order in McDonalds.

Definition: Be undecided or uncertain.

Compelling: The lawyer put forward a compelling case.

Definition: Driving or forcing.

Compulsion: I had a driving compulsion to play on my iPad.

Definition: An urge to do something that might be better left undone.

Dotty: The dotty old lady next door was outside laughing loudly while pushing a buggy with nothing in it.

Definition: Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.

Dainty: The small dainty dancer was being carried high in the air by her partner.

Definition: Delicately beautiful.

Tantalising: His favourite chocolate bar was tantalisingly close, but he couldn't take it because his mum was watching over him like a hawk.

Definition: Arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable

Linger: Years after the nuclear power station blew up there were still lingering traces of radiation.

Definition: Remain present although waning or gradually dying

Emanate: The smells of the bacon were emanating all around the house.

Definition: Give out, as breath or an odor.

Malevolence: The strange goth in the class looked at the punishing teacher with a malevolence glare.

Definition: Wishing or appearing to wish evil to others

Naive: The inexperienced, naive child couldn't possible understand a year 8 test.

Definition: Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity.

Gullible: The bully convinced the gullible classmate to hurt a smaller student, saying it would be cool and funny.

Definition: Easily tricked because of being too trusting.

Beguiling: The bully was nice to the classmate but he was beguiling him for money.

Definition: Misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods. 

2.

Foreshadowing:

A. The landlady stuffs her pets so they look real.

B. The tea the lady gives him smells like burnt almonds.

C. There have only been two other people before him and they are still in the house.