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acc english vocab 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| avid | desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager |
| animadversion | a comment indicating strong criticism disapproval |
| celerity | swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
| accost | to approach and speak to first; to confront in an agressive way |
| gambit | in cheset,an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in ; any opening move of this type |
| devious | straying or wondering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way |
| histrionic | pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial, melodramatic |
| halycon | a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher |
| maelstorm | a whirlpoolof great size and violence and destruction |
| incendiary | delibertly setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strike or rebellion |
| myopic | nearsighted; lacking a broad realistic view of a situation |
| overt | open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |
| propriety | the state of being proper, appropriaters standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |
| pejorative | tending to make worse ; expressing disapproval or disaggrement, derogatory, belittling |
| sacrilege | improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
| summarily | without delay or formality ; briefly, concisely |
| talisman | an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet |
| undulate | to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have waveliike appearance |
| suppliant | asking humbly and earnestly |
| brackish | having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |