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Level G Unit 2
Vocabulary Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accost | to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way |
| Animadversion | A comment indicating strong criticism or diapproval |
| Avid | desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager |
| Brackish | having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
| Celerity | Swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
| Devious | straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way |
| Gambit | in chess- an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage |
| Halycon | a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher, calm peaceful happy, golden |
| Histrionic | pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic |
| Incendiary | deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife |
| Maelstrom | A whirlpool of great size and violence, a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction |
| Myopic | Nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking a foresight or discernment |
| Overt | open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |
| Pejorative | tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory |
| Propriety | the state of being proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |
| Sacrilege | improper or disrespectful treatment of something that is sacred |
| Summarily | without delay or formality |
| Suppliant | asking humbly or earnestly, one who makes a request humbly |
| talisman | an object used as a charm or is believed to have magical powers |
| undulate | to move in waves or with a wavelike motion |
| Synonym Accost | buttonhole, approach |
| Antonym Accost | Avoid, shun |
| Part of Speech Accost | Verb |
| Synonym Animadversion | rebuke, reproof |
| Antonym Animadversion | praise, compliment |
| Part of Speech Animadversion | noun |
| Synonym Avid | keen, enthusiastic, grasping |
| Antonym Avid | reluctant, indifferent, unenthusiastic |
| Parts of speech Avid | adjective |
| Synonym brackish | saline |
| Antonym brackish | clear, sweet |
| Part of speech Brackish | adjective |
| Synonym celerity | promptness, speed |
| Antonym celerity | slowness, sluggishness, dilatoriness |
| Part of Speech | Noun |
| Synonym Devious | roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful |
| Antonym Devious | direct, straightforward, open, aboveboard |
| Part of Speech Devious | Adjective |
| Synonym Gambit | ploy, ruse, maneuver |
| Part of Speech Gambit | Noun |
| Synonym halycon | tranquil, placid, palmy |
| Antonym halycon | turbulent, tumultuous |
| Part of Speech halycon | adjective |
| Synonym Histrionic | affected, stagy |
| Antonym Histrionic | muted, untheatrical, subdued |
| Part of Speech Histrionic | adjective |
| Synonym incendiary | inflammatory, provocative, |
| Antonym incendiary | soothing, quieting |
| Part of Speech incendiary | adjective |
| synonym maelstrom | chaos, turbulence, tumult |
| Part of Speech Maelstrom | noun |
| Synonym Myopic | shortsighted |
| Antonym Myopic | farsighted |
| Part of Speech Myopic | adjective |
| Synonym Overt | clear, obvious, manifest, patent |
| Antonym Overt | clandestine, covert, concealed |
| Part of Speech Overt | Adjective |
| Antonym Pejorative | complimentary, ameliorative |
| Part of Speech Pejorative | adjective |
| Synonyms propriety | fitness, correctness |
| Antonyms Propriety | unseemliness, inappriateness |
| Part of speech Propriety | noun |
| Synonyms Sacrilege | desecration, profanation, defilement |
| Part of Speech Sacrilege | noun |
| Synonyms Undulate | fluctuate, rise and fall |
| Part of Speech Summarily | adverb |
| Synonyms Summarily | promptly, peremptory |
| Part of Speech Suppliant | adjective and noun |
| Part of Speech talisman | noun |
| Part of Speech undulate | verb |
Created by:
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Sonja Gutwerk
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