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Conyers' Vocabulary
Unit 2 Vocabulary for English 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 of 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 or underhanded way |
| gambit | an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice |
| halcyon | calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent |
| histrionic | pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical; melodramamatic |
| incendiary | deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion |
| maelstrom | a whirlpool of great size and violence; chaos |
| myopic | nearsighted; lacking foresight or discernment |
| overt | open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |
| perjorative | tending to make worse; derogatory, belittling |
| propriety | the state of being proper, appropriateness |
| sacrilege | improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
| summarily | improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
| suppliant | asking humbly and earnestly; one who makes a request |
| talisman | an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish |
| undulate | to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form. |