Word meanings:
Nigh = Nearly
Thoroughfare = Public highway
Vicinity = Surrounding Area
Proposition = Something to be dealt with
Hustling = Using personal or aggressive means to make a living or enhance ones career
Staunchest = Most loyal and dependable
Absurdity = Ridiculousness
Bully = Interjection, to show approval
Egotism = Exaggerated sense of self importance and superiority
Simultaneously = Happening at the same time
Transient = Something that lasts for a short time only
Lament = Grieve over
Flit = To move from one place to another without stopping for long
Buoyant = Floating
Quell = To put something to an end usually by means of force
Explicit = Clear, expressing every detail
Tombstone = A gravestone in a graveyard
Freckled = Speckled
Parish = Division of a diocese that has its own church
Leaden = Of a dull grey color
Smothered = Covered with a thick layer of something
Flint = A hard grayish stone
Ravenously = With great hunger
Wittles = Victuals or Pieces of food