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Unit 2
SLHS high school vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Accost | S: Buttonhole,approach, confront A:evade, avoid, shun |
| Animadversion | S: Rebuke, Reproof A: Praise, Compliment |
| Avid | S: Keen, Enthusiastic, grasping A: Reluctant, indifferent, unenthusiastic |
| Brackish | S: briny, saline A: fresh, clear, sweat |
| Celerity | S: Promptness, alacrity, speed A: slowness, sluggishness, dilatoriness |
| Devious | S: tricky, sly artful A: direct straightforward, open |
| Gambit | S: ploy, ruse, maneuver |
| Halcyon | S: tranquil, serene, placid A: turbulent, chaotic, tumultuous |
| Histrionic | S: affected, stagy A: subdued, low-keyed |
| incendiary | S: inflammatory, provocative A: soothing, quieting, peacemaker |
| Maelstrom | S: vortex, chaos, turbulence |
| Myopic | S: shortsighted A: farsighted |
| overt | S: clear, obvious A: secret, covert |
| pejorative | A: complimentary, ameliorative |
| propriety | S: fitness, correctness A: unseemliness, inappropriateness |
| sacrilege | S: desecration, profanation |
| summarily | S: promptly, peremptorily |
| Suppliant | asking humbly and earnestly |
| talisman | an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish |
| undulate | to move in waves or wavelike motion |