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Level G Unit 2
Term | Definition |
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Accost | (v.) to approach speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way |
Animadversion | (n.) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval |
Avid | (adj.) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensively eager |
Brackish | (adj.) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
Celerity | (n.) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
Devious | (adj.) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way |
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 |
Halcyon | (n.) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj.) of or relating to the halcyon; calm. peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent |
Histrionic | (adj.) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic |
Incendiary | (adj.) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to cause fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; (n.) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife |
Maelstrom | (n.) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction |
Myopic | (adj.) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment |
Overt | (adj.) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |
Pejorative | (adj.) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling |
Propriety | (n.) the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl.) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |
Sacrilege | (n.) improper or disrespectful treatment of something that is held sacred |
Summarily | (adv.) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely |
Suppliant | (adj.) asking humbly and earnestly; (n.) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor |
Talisman | (n.) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish |
Undulate | (v.) to move in waves or in a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form |