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20 Cards in this Set
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(v) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way
s: buttonhole, approach, confront a: evade, avoid, shun |
accost
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(n) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval
s:rebuke, reproof a:praise, compliment |
animadversion
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(adj) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager
s: keen, enthusiastic, grasping a: reluctant, indifferent, unenthusiastic |
avid
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(adj) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink
s:briny, saline a:fresh, clear, sweet |
brackish
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(n) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action
s: promptness, alacrity, speed a: slowness, sluggishness, dilatoriness |
celerity
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(adj) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way
s:roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful a: direct, straightforward, open, aboveboard |
devious
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(n) in chess, an opening move that involves risk of sacrifice of minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type
s: ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver |
gambit
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(n) legendary bird identified w/ the kingfisher
(adj) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent s: (adj) tranquil, serene, placid, palmy a: (adj) turbulent, chaotic, tumultuous |
halcyon
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(adj) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, atrificial; melodramatic
s: affected, stagy a: low-keyed, muted, untheatrical, subdued |
histrionic
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(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 s: (adj) inflammatory, provocative (n) firebrand a: (adj) soothing, quieting (n) peacemaker |
incendiary
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(n) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction
s: vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult |
maelstrom
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(adj) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment
s: shortsighted a: farsighted |
myopic
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(adj) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized
s: clear, obvious, manifest, patent a:secret, clandestine, covert concealed |
overt
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(adj) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling
a: complimentary, ameliorative |
pejorative
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(n) the state of being proper, appropriateness (pl) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable
s: fitness, correctness, decorum a: unseemliness, inappropriateness |
propriety
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(n) improper or disresppectful treatment of something held sacred
s: desecration, profanation, defilement |
sacrilege
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(adv) w/out delay or formality; briefly, concisely
s: promptly, peremptorily, abruptly |
summarily
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(adj) asking humbly and earnestly
(n) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor |
suppliant
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(n) 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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(v) to move in a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form
s: ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall |
undulate
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