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Sad-Ox G 2
Question | Answer |
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Accost | to approach and speak to first |
animadversion | a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval |
avid | desirous of something to the point of greed |
brackish | having a salty taste and unplesent to drink |
celerity | swiftness |
devious | straying or wandering from a straight or direct course |
gambit | in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece |
halcyon | a legendary bird;calm, peaceful, beautiful |
histrionic | pertaining to actors and their techniques |
incendiary | deliberately setting or causing fires |
maelstrom | a whirlpool of great size and violence |
myopic | nearsighted;lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation |
Overt | open, not hidden |
pejorative | tending to make worse |
propriety | the state of being proper, appropriateness |
sacrilege | inproper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
summarily | without delay or formality |
suppliant | asking humbly and earnestly |
talisman | an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers |
undulate | to move in waves or with a wavelike moti0on |