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Please explain me the story

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Please explain me the story .Mr. Know All By W. Somerset Maugham
http://maugham.classicauthors.net/knowall/
Does it possible to sent me difficult words of story?
If y have small passage till 7/8 grade explanation in spoken language .Does it possible to represent it?
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I was prepared to dislike Max Kelada even before I knew him.
I'd been prepared to dislike Max Kelada even before I knew him.

berth ~ bed in a cabin of a ship.

You could not hope for a cabin (to) for yourself

porthole ~ a small round window in a side of a ship

slicking ~ to cause hair to be smooth onto the head

lustrous ~ very shiny (eyes)

exuberant ~ very vital

bone-dry ~ extremaly dry, really dry

ginger ale ~ a fizzy drink containing ginger

fizzy ~ producing bubles in the water

lemon squash ~ something like lemonade

hip pockets ~ pockets at both side of his clothes above his legs and under his waist, at the hips

flask ~ not a big flat bottle usualy with alcohole in it

tumbler ~ a small roun container (to put peaces of ice in it)

put on airs ~ to behave as if you are more important then you really are

the ten on the knave ~ the player playing cards had a knave in his hands and then got a ten (bad luck for him)

exasperating ~ extremely anoying

snub ~ ignore

got up quoit and golf matches, "quoit" ??

He was certainly the best haled man in the ship. "haled" ??

jovial ~ friendly by reason of being in a good mood

loquacious ~ talking a lot

affront ~ to refuse to get

overweening ~ having and shoving to much confidence in everything

vanity ~ selfish

cocksureness ~ ??

acrimonious ~ much worse then "not nice"

interminable ~ for too long boring and annoying

bulged out ~ stick out in a fat shape

demeanour ~ a way of looking and behaving

diminish ~ to decrease value of something

to fling ~ to say angrily, to argue angrily

vehement ~ to be vehement is to show show feeling, energy etc..

sting ~ hurt (sting, stung, stung)

thumped ~ to hit something or someone with your fist

loquacity ~ ??

vaguely ~ not clear in shape, expression, or anything

errand ~ a short journey caused by something

siring ~ ??

"Will you bet on it? I`ll bet you a hundred dollars it`s an imitation."
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