Even more vocabulary

shunt - отодвигать, перемещать
"The matress has been shunted aside."

cue - реплика
chuckle - посмеиваться
"It was a play, and this was my cue to look puzzled. Then to chuckle, because chuckling came next in the stage directions."

abscond - сбегать, скрываться
decamp - убегать, сниматься с места
flit - упорхнуть
"Absconded, Mr Lester. Decamped. Took French leave. Did a midnight flit."

avid - заядлый
"As an avid reader and student of American slang, such terms occur naturally to me."

riddance - уборка, устранение
"Said good riddance to bad rubbish."

contiguous - смежный, прилегающий
"...that piece of property, which is contiguous with Hemingford Stream..."

flutter - трепетать, развеваться
"There was a note fluttering beneath one edge."

badger - дразнить, изводить
"He tried to badger us, but he had nothing to badger with"

insinuation - намек
"The first time he asked a lot of questions, that really weren't questions at all but insinuations."

twitch - дергаться
bulge - выпячиваться, выдаваться
"His lips were twitching and his eyes were bulging."