drudges β a person who does menial, distasteful, dull, or hard work.
grinds β (Ireland, colloquial, plurale tantum) tutoring; extra lessons in a specific subject outside of school hours. Grinds are often given by private individuals or firms, and might not be provided by the school.
customers β A person or organization that buys goods or services from a store or business.
ducks β any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
eccentrics β Plural form of eccentric; persons who have unusual tendancies.
appearances β the act or fact of appearing, as to the eye or mind or before the public: the unannounced appearance of dinner guests; the last appearance of Caruso in AΓ―da; her first appearance at a stockholders' meeting.
characters β the aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing.
ghosts β the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.