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bkhs 12/G unit 2
sadlier-oxford vocab workshop level g unit 2
Question | Answer |
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accost | to approach and speak to first; to confront |
animadversion | a comment indicating strong criticism or approval |
avid | desirous of something to the point of greed |
brackish | having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
celerity | swiftness, rapidity of motion |
devious | straying or wandering from a straight or direct course |
gambit | in chess, an opening move that involves risk |
halcyon | a legendary bird; calm, peaceful, happy |
histrionic | pertaining to actors and their techniques, melodramatic |
incendiary | deliberately setting fires, stir up strife |
maelstrom | a whirpool of great size and violence |
myopic | nearsighted |
overt | open, not hidden |
perjorative | tending to make worse, expressing disapproval |
propriety | in the state of being proper, what is socially acceptable |
sacrilege | improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
summarily | without delay |
suppliant | asking humbly and earnestly |
talisman | a charm believed to confer magical powers |
undulate | to move in waves |