#7b Flashcards

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Sinewy

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Having strong and 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 deserving serious attention and respect

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Ebony

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Hard, heavy wood that comes from tropical forest

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Chiffonier

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A high narrow chest of draws

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Coddling

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Excessive treating with 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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In a way relating to a plot or cabal

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Careened

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Sway side to side with out control

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Gloat

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To show 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, steady, or strong

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Skittish

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Easily frightened nervous, fearful about doing something

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Haughty

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Having an attitude where one feels more important better or smarter than another

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Prevail

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To defeat an opponent in contest

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Interject

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To interrupt what someone els is saying with a comment, remark, etc…

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Wizened

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

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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 research a place for something in away that causes disorder or damage

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Patronize

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To give money or support to something or someone

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Guttural

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Formed or pronounced in the throat

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Warily

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Cautiously or carefully

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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 or pleasure

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Verandas

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

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Malevolently

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Having or showing a desire to cause harm to another person