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Sad-Ox G 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |