#7b Flashcards
Sinewy
Having strong and lean muscles
Tawny
Having a brownish-orange color
Formidable
Very powerful or strong deserving serious attention and respect
Ebony
Hard, heavy wood that comes from tropical forest
Chiffonier
A high narrow chest of draws
Coddling
Excessive treating with care or kindness
Inaccessible
Difficult or impossible to reach, approach,or understand
Conspiratorially
In a way relating to a plot or cabal
Careened
Sway side to side with out control
Gloat
To show an improper or selfish way that you are happy with your own success or another persons failure
Precariously
Not safe, steady, or strong
Skittish
Easily frightened nervous, fearful about doing something
Haughty
Having an attitude where one feels more important better or smarter than another
Prevail
To defeat an opponent in contest
Interject
To interrupt what someone els is saying with a comment, remark, etc…
Wizened
To become dry shrunken and wrinkled often as a result of aging or failing vitally
Emphatic
Said or done in a forceful or definite way
Ransacked
To research a place for something in away that causes disorder or damage
Patronize
To give money or support to something or someone
Guttural
Formed or pronounced in the throat
Warily
Cautiously or carefully
Proprietor
A person who owns a business or property
Intermingled
To mix together
Snidely
Unkind or insulting in an indirect way