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Unit 2
Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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accost | to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way. |
animadversion | a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval |
avid | desirous or something to the point of greed;intensely eager |
brackish | having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
celerity | swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
devious | straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty way or underhanded way |
gambit | in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage;any opening move of this type |
halcyon | a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful, happy, golden;prosperous, affluent |
histrionic | pertaining to actors and their techniques;theatrical,artificial;melodramatic |
incendiary | deliberately setting or causing fires, designed to start fires,tending to stir up strife or rebellion and one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist;one who causes this |
Maelstorm | a whirlpool of great size and violence;a situation resembling a whirlpool of violence and destruction |
Myopic | nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of the situation |