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Question | Answer |
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(v) approach and speak to first; confront in a challenging or aggressive way | Accost |
(n) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval | Animadversion |
(adj) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager | Avid |
(adj) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink | Brackish |
(n) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action | Celerity |
(adj) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhand way | Devious |
(n) in chess and opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type | Gambitv |
(n) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent | Halcyon |
(adj) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic | Histrionic |
(adj) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to sir up strife or rebellion; (n) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who cases strife | Incendiary |
(n) whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction | Maelstrom |
(adj) nearsighted, lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment | Myopic |
(adj) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is not easily recognized | Overt |
(adj) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling | Pejorative |
(n) the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable | Propriety |
(n) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred S: desecration, profanation, defilement | Sacrilege |
(adv) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely | Summarily |
(adj) asking humbly and earnestly (n) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor | Suppliant |
(n) an object that srves as a charm r is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish | Talisman |
(v) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form | Undulate |