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Vocabulary Unit 2
Vocabulary Workshop Level G Unit 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| accost | definition: to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way synonym: buttonhole, approach antonym: evade, avoid |
| animadversion | definition: a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval synonym: rebuke, reproof antonym: praise |
| avid | definition:desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager synonym: keen, enthusiastic antonym: reluctant, indifferent |
| brackish | definition:having a salty tast and unpleasant to drink synonym: briny antonym: fresh, sweet |
| celerity | definition: swiftness, rapidity of motion or action synonym: promptness antonym: slowness, sluggishness |
| devious | definition: straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way synonym: roundabout, indirect, sly antonym: direct |
| gambit | definition: 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 synonym: ploy, stratagem, ruse |
| halcyon | definition: a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj.) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent synonym: tranquil antonym: turbulent |
| histrionic | definition:pertaining to actors and their techniques, theatrical, artificial; melodramatic synonym: affected antonym: low-keyed, subdued |
| incendiary | definition: 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 synonym: inflammatory antonym: soothing |
| maelstrom | definition: a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction synonym: vortex, chaos |
| myopic | definition: nearsighted, lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation, lacking foresight or discernment synonym: shortsighted antonym: farsighted |
| overt | definition: open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized synonym: clear, obvious antonym: secret, clandestine, covert |
| pejorative | definition:tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling antonym: complimentary, ameliorative |
| propriety | definition:state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl.) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable synonym: fitness, decorum antonym: unseemliness |
| sacrilege | definition: improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred synonym: desecration |
| summarily | definition: without delay or formality; briefly, concisely synonym: promptly |
| suppliant | definition: asking humbly and earnestly; (n.) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor |
| talisman | definition: an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish |
| undulate | definition: to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form |
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