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20 Cards in this Set
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To approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way
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Accost
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A comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval
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Animadversion
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Desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager
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Avid
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Having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink
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Brackish
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Swiftness, rapidity of motion or action
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Celerity
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Straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way
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Devious
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In chess, an opening move that involved risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; an opening move of this type
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Gambit
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A legendary bird identified with the kingfisher;Of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy golden; prosperous, affluent
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Halcyon
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Pertaining to the actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic
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Histrionic
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Deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up stifle or rebellion
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Incendiary
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A whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction
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Maelstrom
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Nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation lacking foresight or discernment
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Myopic
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Open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized
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Overt
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Tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling
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Pejorative
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The state of being proper, appropriateness, standards of what is proper or socially acceptable
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Propriety
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Improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred
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Sacrilege
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Without delay or formality; briefly, concisely
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Summarily
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Asking humbly and earnestly
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Suppliant
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An object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish
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Talisman
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To move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form
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Undulate
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