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