Swanky
imposingly fashionable and elegant
They had porches and pillars and four or five steps going up to their front doors, and it was obvious that once apon a time they had been very swanky residences.
Very fashionable and expensive
Congenial
suitable to your needs
On the other hand, a pub would be more congenial than a boardinghouse.
Something what you need at a certain time
Rapacious
excessively greedy and grasping
The name itself conjured up images of watery cabbage, rapacious landladies, and a powerful smell of kippers in the living room.
Someone that is greedy for something
Dither
be undecided or uncertain
After dithering about like this in the cold for two or three minutes, Billy decided that he would walk on and took a look at The Bell and Dragon before making up his mind.
Not sure what to do or confused
Compelling
driving or forcing
Each word was like a large black eye starring at him through the glass, holding him, compelling it, forcing him to stay where he was and not to walk away, and the next thing he knew, he was actually moving across the window to the front door of the house, climbing the steps that led up to it, and reached for the bell.
Forcing someone or something to do an action
Compulsion
an urge to do something that might be better left undone
The compulsion or, more accurately, the desire to follow after her into that house was extraordinarily strong.
something that shouldn't have been done
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