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20 Cards in this Set
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to approach and speack 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
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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, dont or acting in a shifty or underhanded way
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devious
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in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice or a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage, any opening move of this affluent
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gambit
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a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher
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halcyon
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pertaingin to actors and their techniques theatrical articficial melodramatic
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histrionic
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deliberately setting or causing fires
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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
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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, brief concisely
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summarily
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asking humbly and eanestly
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suppliant
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an object that serves as a charm or is believe 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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