Words to Research from the Time Machine

Wane: To appear to become thinner of less full. “The moon was on the wane: each night there was a longer interval of darkness” (282)

Dexterous: Having or showing a great skill or cleverness: showing dexterity. “All the buildings and trees seemed easily practicable to such dexterous climbers as the Morlocks, to judge by their wells, must be.” (283)

  Aperture: A hole or a small opening in something. “Swinging myself in, I found it was the aperture of a narrow horizontal tunnel in which I could lie down and rest” (278)

 Hermetically: Closed tightly so that no air can go in or out. “I found it in a sealed jar, that by chance, I suppose, had been really hermetically sealed” (294)