vocab
Terms
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- rigging
- the arrangement of sails and related gear on a ship
- Penchant
- a definite liking; a strong inclination
- wafted
- conveyed or sent floating through the air
- lurked
- lay hidden; stayed out of sight
- Raucous
- Rough-sounding and harsh
- Ornate
- Elaborately, heavily, and often excessively ornamented
- Sharecropping
- Working(land) or growing (crops) as a sharecropper.
- vast
- of very large size; enormous; huge
- Knell
- sound of a bell
- furl
- to roll up and fasten
- milling
- moving around in churning confusion
- Flippantly
- casually
- adamantly
- stubbornly
- discourse
- conversation
- confer
- to meet in order to deliberate together or compare views
- fathom
- to penetrate to the meaning or nature of, comprehend
- feigned
- pretended
- haughtily
- scornfully and condescendingly proud
- Pensively
- Deeply, often wistfully or dreamily thoughtful
- Maverick
- one that refuses to abide by the dictates of or resists adherence to a group, a dissenter
- Temerity
- foolhardy disregard of danger. recklessness
- dubious
- Fraught with uncertainty or doubt
- Imperiously
- Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
- Disdainfully
- Expressively disdainful; scornfully and contemptuously
- Undaunted
- not discouraged or disheartened; resolutely courageous
- expounding
- explained in detail
- proprietors
- one who has legal title to something, an owner
- oblivious
- lacking conscious awareness
- huddled
- crowded or nestled next to
- riveted
- to engross or hold attention
- Chiffonier
- A narrow, High chest of drawers or bureau, often with a mirror attached
- resiliency
- the property of a material that enables it to resume its original shape or position after being bent, stretched, or compressed
- Beams
- long, horizontal pieces of wood or metal shaped for use, as in the frame of a building or ship
- Formidable
- Inspiring awe, admiration, or wonder
- admonished
- To counsel another against something to be avoided
- Embittered
- to arouse bitter feelings in
- Emaciated
- Made or Became extremely thin, especially as a result of starvation
- donned
- to put on (clothing)
- Chignon
- A roll or knot of hair worn at the back of the head or especially at the nape of the neck
- transposed
- put into a different place or order
- dismally
- dreadfully; disastrously
- settlement
- an area newly settled by people, a colony
- emitted
- to give or send out matter (a smell)
- precariously
- Dangerously lacking in security or stability
- stealthily
- marked by or acting with quiet, caution, and secrecy intended to avoid notice
- moronic
- regarded as very stupid
- reverberated
- reechoed ( a sound)
- Morosely
- Sullenly melancholy; gloomy