His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife Day 3

Disconcerting

causing one to feel unsettled; unsettling, unnerving, discomfiting, troubling.

Instantaneously

immediately; without any delay.

Incredulous

unwilling or unable to believe something; disbelieving; skeptical.

Haughtily

Arrogantly; proudly; snobbishly.

Taciturn

(adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little.

Inscrutable

impossible to understand or interpret; mysterious.

Deprive

to take something away from.

Initiated

cause (a process or action) to begin.

Congregated

gather into a crowd or mass.

Oblique

(adj.) slanting or sloping; not straightforward or direct.

Suffused

gradually spread through or over.

Virtue

behavior showing high moral standards.