#7b Flashcards
Sinewy
Having strong an lean muscles
Tawny
Having a brownish-orange color
Formidable
Very powerful or strong
Ebony
A hard, heavy wood that comes from tropical trees
Chiffonier
A high narrow chest of drawers
Coddling
To treat someone with too much care or kindness
Inaccessible
Difficult or impossible to reach, approach, or understand
Conspiratorially
Involving a secret plan by two or more people to do something that is harmful or illegal
Careened
To sway from side to side without control
Gloat
To show in an improper or selfish way that you are happy with your own success or another persons failure
Precariously
Not safe, strong or steady
Skittish
Easily frightened or excited
Haughty
Blatantly and disdainfully proud
Prevail
To defeat an opponent especially in a long or difficult contest
Interject
To interrupt what someone else is saying