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Vocabulary #2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| accost | (v.): to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way SYN: buttonhole, approach |
| animadversion | (n.): a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval SYN; rebuke, reproof |
| avid | (adj.): desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager SYN: keen, enthusiastic, grasping |
| brackish | (adj.): having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink SYN: saline |
| celerity | (n.) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action SYN: promptness, speed |
| devious | (adj.): straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way SYN: roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful |
| 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 SYN: ploy, ruse, maneuver |
| halcyon | (n.): a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj.): of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent SYN: tranquil, placid, palmy |
| histrionic | (adj.): pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic SYN: affected, stagy |
| 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 SYN:adj.): inflammatory, provocative (n.) firebrand |
| maelstrom | (n.): a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction SYN: chaos, turbulence, tumult |
| myopic | (adj.): nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment SYN: shortsighted |
| overt | (adj.): open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized SYN: clear, obvious, manifest, patent |
| pejorative | (adj.): tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling, invidious |
| propriety | n.): the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl.): standards of what is proper and socially acceptable SYN: fitness, correctness |
| sacrilege | (n.): improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred SYN: desecration, profanation, defilement |
| summarily | (adj.): without delay or formality; briefly, concisely SYN: promptly, peremptorily |
| suppliant | (adj.): asking humbly and earnestly; (n.): one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, a 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 wave-like motion or with waves; to have a wavering appearance or form SYN: fluctuate, rise and fall |
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