#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

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Ebony

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Hard, heavy wood that comes from tropical trees

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Chiffonier

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High narrow chest of drawers

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Coddling

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Treating someone with too much care or kindness

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Inaccessible

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Difficult to understand

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Conspiratorially

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Plot between two or more people

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Careened

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To sway side to side

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Gloat

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To show an improper or selfish way that you are happy with your own success

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Precariously

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Not safe, strong, or steady

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Skittish

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Nervous or fearful about doing something

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Haughty

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Having or showing the insulting attitude of people who think they are better

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Prevail

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To defeat an opponent

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Interject

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To interrupt what someone is saying

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Wizened

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To have become dry, shrunken, often because of old age

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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 have searched 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 or 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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Showing complete trust in someone or something

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Proprietor

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Person who owns a business or property

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Intermingled

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Mixed together

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Snidely

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Unkind or insulting in a indirect way

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Bland

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No taste or color

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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 porch

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Malevolently

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Having or showing a desire to cause harm to another person