Their Eyes Were Watching God

Plume

A large, showy feather

Pugnacious

Having a quarrelsome or combative nature

Dilate

To enlarge

Sanctum

A sacred or holy place

Calyx

Sepals of a flower as a group

Expound

To explain in detail/to elucidate

Mien

Air or bearing expressive of personality

Percale

A closely woven cotton fabric

Cow

To intimidate or make afraid

Temerity

Brazenness

Doleful

Very, very sad

Bray

To make a loud, harsh cry of a donkey

Fractious

Inclined to make trouble

Hammock

A tractor of land rising above a marsh

Distended

Dilated

Decorum

Adherence to manners

Coquetry

Flirtation

Hackles

A feeling of anger or animosity

Dudgeon

An angry or indignant mood

Stolidness

The quality of showing little or no emotion

Pullet

A hen younger than a year

Scimitar

A curved Middle Eastern sword

Temporize

To act to suit the time

Newel

A vertical support of a spiral staircase

Flivver

A cheap, old car

Insensate

Lacking humane feeling

Preempt

To take for oneself

Disgorge

To vomit

Supplication

A request for aid to someone in power

Fetid

Really stinky