#7b Flashcards

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Sinewy

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Having strong an lean muscles

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Tawny

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Having a brownish-orange color

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Formidable

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Very powerful or strong

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Ebony

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A hard, heavy wood that comes from tropical trees

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Chiffonier

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A high narrow chest of drawers

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Coddling

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To treat someone with too much care or kindness

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Inaccessible

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Difficult or impossible to reach, approach, or understand

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Conspiratorially

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Involving a secret plan by two or more people to do something that is harmful or illegal

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Careened

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To sway from side to side without control

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Gloat

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To show in an improper or selfish way that you are happy with your own success or another persons failure

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Precariously

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Not safe, strong or steady

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Skittish

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Easily frightened or excited

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Haughty

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Blatantly and disdainfully proud

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Prevail

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To defeat an opponent especially in a long or difficult contest

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Interject

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To interrupt what someone else is saying

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Wizened

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To become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or failing vitality

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Emphatic

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Said or done in a forceful or definite way

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Ransacked

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To search a place for something in a way that causes disorder or damage

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Patronize

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To give money or support to someone ore something

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Guttural

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Formed or pronounced in the throat

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Warily

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Not having or showing complete trust in someone or something that could be dangerous or cause trouble

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Proprietor

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A person who owns a business or property

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Intermingled

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To mix together

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Snidely

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Unkind or insulting in an indirect way

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Bland

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Not interesting or exciting

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Promenading

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To walk in a public place for pleasure

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Verandas

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A long open structure on the outside of a building that has a roof

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Malevolently

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Cruel or evil intent