Once Upon a Time

Once Upon a Time Glossary

Lurch

Make an abrupt movement

Threatening

Deliberately aggressive and frightening mannerism

Captor

A person who has detained someone

Tyrannical

Oppressive and controlling

Lodgings

Temporary accommodations

distend

extend, enlarge, swell

arrhythmia

irregularity of the heartbeat

suppressed

put down, covered

audaciously

boldly

keener

sharper, clearer

importuned

pleaded with, asked of, urged

jacaranda

any of a genus (Jacaranda) of tropical American trees of the bignonia family with bipinnate leaves and panicles of showy usually blue flowers (m-w.com)

aesthetics

what is beautiful, pleasing to the eye

serrated

jagged

barricade

a barrier, obstacle

efficacy

the state of doing something well, effectively

itinerant

without a home, wandering about

affixed

stuck to

ransacked

messily, roughly looked through a space

apertures

openings