| Term | Definition |
| Accost | (v.) to approach speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way |
| Animadversion | (n.) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval |
| Avid | (adj.) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensively eager |
| Brackish | (adj.) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
| Celerity | (n.) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
| Devious | (adj.) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way |
| Gambit | (n.) 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 |
| Halcyon | (n.) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj.) of or relating to the halcyon; calm. peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent |
| Histrionic | (adj.) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic |
| Incendiary | (adj.) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to cause fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; (n.) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife |
| Maelstrom | (n.) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction |
| Myopic | (adj.) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment |
| Overt | (adj.) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |
| Pejorative | (adj.) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling |
| Propriety | (n.) the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl.) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |
| Sacrilege | (n.) improper or disrespectful treatment of something that is held sacred |
| Summarily | (adv.) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely |
| Suppliant | (adj.) asking humbly and earnestly; (n.) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor |
| Talisman | (n.) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish |
| Undulate | (v.) to move in waves or in a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form |
