In "...CONTIGUOUS to absolutely nothing..." CONTIGUOUS means...

In "...the SUPERCILIOUS assumption was that on Sunday afternoon I had nothing better to do..." SUPERCILIOUS means

In "...she had begun dealing in SUBTERFUGES when she was very young..." SUBTERFUGE means

In "... he demanded IMPETUOUSLY," IMPETUOUS means

In "He’s quite a character around New York—a DENIZEN of Broadway," DENIZEN means

In "... a series of rapid, DEFT movements," DEFT means

In "...in my PROVINCIAL inexperience I believed they didn’t," PROVINCIAL means

In "... girls were putting their heads on men’s shoulders in a puppyish, CONVIVIAL way...," CONVIVIAL means

In " This quality was continually breaking through his PUNCTILIOUS manner...," PUNCTILIOUS means

In ".. the air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual INNUENDO," INNUENDO means