1.) I believe the answer is: settlement.
Settlement refers to an additional payment that should be made by one party to another under a special circumtances. At that time, the drivers refuse to move until receiving settlement because the driver felt that there are a lot of his working hours left unpaid.
2.) I believe the answer is: The father's face
The father is known to tend make very little effort to make verbal communication with other people around them. Because of this, the family become adept at studying the father's face in order to gauge his emotion and guess what he wants
3.) I believe the answer is: Elder
The elder find that road side shave is extremely relaxing and weirdly satisfying. As he grow up, he has lesser tendency to find high-excitement level activity, so 'his happiness in life would only come from small things that often overlooked.
4.) I believe the answer is: mood.
Mood would describe the general feeling or atmosphere that exist on a certain part of the story. In most cases, mood would represent the emotion that is felt by the main character of the story and the mood might quickly changed as the plot moves forward.
5. I believe the answer is: was
In past tense, were is used to accompany plural noun or people while was is used to accompany single noun or a person. In the sentence above, we use 'was' even though there is a prural form 'glasses' because The use of 'neither' indicate that we had to address the glass individually.