Ap Vocab Unit 2

Front 1

v. to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or agressive way; buttonhole, approach, confront

Back 1

accost

Front 2

n. a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval; rebuke, reproof

Back 2

animadversion

Front 3

adj. desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager; keen, enthusiastic, grasping

Back 3

avid

Front 4

adj. having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink; briny, saline

Back 4

brackish

Front 5

n. swiftness, rapidity of motion or action; promptness, alacrity, speed

Back 5

celerity

Front 6

adj. straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way; roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful

Back 6

devious

Front 7

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; ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver

Back 7

gambit

Front 8

n. a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; adj. calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent; tranquil, serene, placid, palmy

Back 8

halcyon

Front 9

adj. pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic; affected, stagy

Back 9

histrionic

Front 10

adj. deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; n. one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife; adj. inflammatory, provocative; n. firebrand

Back 10

incendiary

Front 11

n. a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction; vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult

Back 11

maelstrom

Front 12

adj. nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment; shortsighted

Back 12

myopic

Front 13

adj. open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized; clear, obvious, manifest, patent

Back 13

overt

Front 14

adj. tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling

Back 14

pejorative

Front 15

n. the state of eing proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable; fitness, correctness, decorum

Back 15

propriety

Front 16

n. improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred; desecration, profanation, defilement

Back 16

sacrilege

Front 17

adv. without delay or formality; briefly, concisely; promptly, peremptorily, abruptly

Back 17

summarily

Front 18

adj. asking humbly and earnestly; n. one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor

Back 18

suppliant

Front 19

n. an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish

Back 19

talisman

Front 20

v. to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form; ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall

Back 20

undulate