Lemon Brown

a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.

• bodega

• tenement

• scalawags

• stoop

done without being planned, organized, or rehearsed.

• involuntary

• ominous

• beckoned

• impromptu

a small grocery store, especially in a Spanish-speaking neighborhood.

• scalawags

• bodega

• commence

• tenement

done without will or conscious control.

• ominous

• impromptu

• involuntary

• beckoned

begin; start.

• tenement

• gnarled

• beckoned

• commence

a porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda at a house door.

• stoop

• tenement

• bodega

• scalawags

make a gesture with the hand, arm, or head to encourage someone to come nearer or follow

• involuntary

• ominous

• beckoned

• commence

knobbly, rough, and twisted, especially with age

• involuntary

• stoop

• scalawags

• gnarled

giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening;

• beckoned

• commence

• stoop

• ominous

a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way; a rascal.

• bodega

• stoop

• scalawags

• gnarled