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Week Two Vocab LWO

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accost to approach; confront in aggressive way, buttonhole
animadversion comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval, rebuke, reproof
avid desirous of something to the point of greed, intensely eager, keen, enthusiastic, grasping
brackish having a salty taste and unpleasing to drink, saline
celerity swiftness, rapidity of motion or action, promptness, speed
devious straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way; indirect, tricky
gambit in chess, opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type; ploy, ruse, maneuver
halcyon legendary bird; calm, peaceful; happy, tranquil, placid, palmy
histrionic actors and their techniques, theatrical artifical; melodramatic; affected, stagy
incendiary setting, causing fires, designed to start fires; inflammatory, provocative; firebrand
maelstrom whirlpool of great size and violence; chaos, turbulence, tumult
myopic nearsighted, lacking a broad realistic view; shortsighted
overt open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized; clear, obvious
pejorative tending to make worse, expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling
propriety state of being proper, appropriateness; fitness, correctness
sacrilege improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred; desecration, profanation, defilement
summarily without delay or formality; briefly, concisely; promptly, peremptorily
suppliant asking humbly and earnstly; a petitioner, suitor
talisman object that serves as a charm or believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish
undulate to move in waves; to have a wave like appearance or form; fluctuate, rise and fall
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