#7b Flashcards
Sinewy
Having strong and lean muscles
Tawny
Having a brownish orange color
Formidable
Very powerful or strong
Ebony
Hard, heavy wood that comes from tropical trees
Chiffonier
High narrow chest of drawers
Coddling
Treating someone with too much care or kindness
Inaccessible
Difficult to understand
Conspiratorially
Plot between two or more people
Careened
To sway side to side
Gloat
To show an improper or selfish way that you are happy with your own success
Precariously
Not safe, strong, or steady
Skittish
Nervous or fearful about doing something
Haughty
Having or showing the insulting attitude of people who think they are better
Prevail
To defeat an opponent
Interject
To interrupt what someone is saying
Wizened
To have become dry, shrunken, often because of old age
Emphatic
Said or done in a forceful or definite way
Ransacked
To have searched for something in a way that causes disorder or damage
Patronize
To give money or support to someone or something
Guttural
Formed or pronounced in the throat
Warily
Showing complete trust in someone or something
Proprietor
Person who owns a business or property
Intermingled
Mixed together
Snidely
Unkind or insulting in a indirect way
Bland
No taste or color
Promenading
To walk in a public place for pleasure
Verandas
A porch
Malevolently
Having or showing a desire to cause harm to another person
