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- dubious
- Fraught with uncertainty or doubt
- haughtily
- scornfully and condescendingly proud
- Knell
- sound of a bell
- Sullenly
- Morosely or sulkily
- feigned
- pretended
- transposed
- put into a different place or order
- Temerity
- foolhardy disregard of danger. recklessness
- beams
- long, horizontal pieces of wood or metal shaped for use, as in the frame of a building or ship
- emitted
- to give or send out matter (a smell)
- vast
- of very large size; enormous; huge
- Insolently
- Audaciously rude or disrespectful; arrogantly
- wafted
- conveyed or sent floating through the air
- resiliency
- the property of a meterial that enables it to resume its original shape or position after being bent, streched, or compressed
- Formidable
- Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
- settlement
- an area newly settled by people, a colony
- Ornate
- Elaborately, heavily, and often excessively ornamented
- Envisioned
- Pictured in the Mind; imagined
- adamantly
- stubbornly
- Boycott
- To act together in abstaining from using, buying, or dealing with an expression of protest or disfavor or as a means of coercion
- rigging
- the arrangement of sails and related gear on a ship
- discourse
- conversation
- reverberated
- reechoed ( a sound)
- Chignon
- A roll or knot of hair worn at the back of the head or especially at the nape of the neck
- Interminable
- Being or seeming to be without an end; endless
- dismally
- dreadfully; disastrously
- Chiffonier
- A narrow, High chest of drawers or bureau, often with a mirror attached
- Malevolently
- Wishing harm to others; maliciously
- Morosely
- Sullenly melancholy; gloomy
- Pensively
- Deeply, often wistfully or dreamily thoughtful
- Raucous
- Rough-sounding and harsh
- precariously
- Dangerously lacking in security or stability
- Imperiously
- Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
- stealthily
- marked by or acting with quiet, caution, and secrecy intended to avoid notice
- admonished
- To counsel another against something to be avoided
- Maverick
- one that refuses to abide by the dictates of or resists adherence to a group, a dissenter
- expounding
- explained in detail
- riveted
- to engross or hold attention
- fathom
- to penetrate to the meaning or nature of, comprehend
- Undaunted
- not discoraged or disheartened; resolutely courageous
- proprietors
- one who has legal title to something, an owner
- oblivious
- lacking conscious awareness
- furl
- to roll up and fasten
- confer
- to meet in order to deliberate together or compare views
- Retaliated
- Paid back (an injury) in kind
- lurked
- lay hidden; stayed out of sight
- Placid
- Satisfied; complacent
- Embittered
- to arouse bitter feelings in
- donned
- to put on (clothing)
- Ambled
- Walked Slowly or Leisurely; strolled
- Languidly
- Lacking energy or vitality; weakly
- huddled
- crowded or nestled next to
- milling
- moving around in churning confusion
- Flippantly
- casually
- Sharecropping
- Working(land) or growing (crops) as a sharecropper.
- moronic
- regarded as very stupid
- Penchant
- a definite liking; a strong inclination
- Disdainfully
- Expressively disdainful; scornfully and contemptuously
- Emaciated
- Made or Became extremely thin, especially as a result of starvation