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Junior Unit 2
Unit 2 Cougars
| Term | Definition | Synonyms | Antonyms |
|---|---|---|---|
| accost | v. to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way. | buttonhole, approach, confront | evade, avoid, shun |
| avid | adj. desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager | keen, enthusiastic, grasping | reluctant, indifferent, unenthusiastic |
| brackish | adj. having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink | briny, saline | fresh, clear, sweet |
| celerity | n. swiftness, rapidity of motion or action | promptness, alacrity, speed | slowness, sluggishness, dilatoriness |
| devious | adj. straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way. | roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful | direct, straightforward, open, aboveboard |
| gambit | n. 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 | ploy, stratagem, manuever | NA |
| halcyon | n. a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; adj. of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent | (adj) tranquil, serene, placid, palmy | (adj) turbulent, chaotic, tumultuous |
| histrionic | adj. pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic | affected, stagy | low-keyed, muted, untheatrical, subdued |
| incendiary | adj. deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; n. one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife | adj. inflammatory, provocative; n. firebrand | adj. soothing, quieting; n. peacemaker |
| maelstrom | n. a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction | vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult | NA |
| myopic | adj. nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment | shortsighted | farsighted |
| overt | adj. open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized | clear, obvious, manifest, patent | secret, clandestine, covert, concealed |
| pejorative | adj. tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling | derogatory, deprecatory, belittling | complimentary, ameliorative |
| propriety | n. the state of being proper, appropriateness; pl. standards of what is proper or socially acceptable | fitness, correctness, decorum | unseemliness, inappropriateness |
| sacriledge | n. improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred | desecration, profanation, defilement | NA |
| summarily | adv. without delay or formality; briefly, concisely | promptly, peremptorily, abruptly | NA |
| suppliant | adj. asking humbly and earnestly; n. one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor | petitioner | NA |
| talisman | n. an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish | amulet, fetish | NA |
| undulate | v. to move in waves or with wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form | ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall | NA |
| animadversion | n. a comment indicating strong disapproval | rebuke, reprove | praise, compliment |
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