Vocab 2

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accost

Back 1

v, to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way

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animadverison

Back 2

n, a comment indicating strong criticim or disapproval

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avid

Back 3

adj, desirous of something to the point of greed; intensly eager

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brackish

Back 4

adj, having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink

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celerity

Back 5

n, swiftness, rapidity of motion or action

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devious

Back 6

adj, straying or wandering from a straight or direct course, done or acting a shifty or underhanded way

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gambit

Back 7

n, in chess, an opening move that involves rise or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type

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halcyon

Back 8

n, a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher
adj, of or relating to the halycon; calm, peaceful, happy, golden

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histrionic

Back 9

adj, pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatical , artifiical, melodramatice

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incendiary

Back 10

adj, delibrately setting or causing fires, designed to start fires, tenfing to stir up a rebellion
n, the one who deliberately sets fires

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maelstrom

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n, a whirpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirpool in violence and destruction

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myopic

Back 12

adj, nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation

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overt

Back 13

adj, open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way thats is easily recongized

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pejorative

Back 14

adj, tending to make worse, expressing disapproval or disparagement

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propriety

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n, the state of being proper, appropiateness, (pl) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable

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sacrilege

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n, improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred

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summarily

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adv, without delay or formality; briefly, concisely

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suppliant

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

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talisman

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

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undulate

Back 20

v, to move in waves or with a wavelike motion, to have a wavelike appearance or form

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SYN
ANT
accost

Back 21

s- buttonhole, apporach, confront
a- evade, avoid, shun

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SYN
ANT
animadverison

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s- rebuke, reproof
a- praise, compliment

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SYN
ANT
avid

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s- keen, enthuastic,grasping
a- reluctant, indifferent, unenthuastic

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SYN
ANT
brackish

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s- briny, saline
a- fresh, clear, sweet

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SYN
ANT
celerity

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s- promptness, alacrity, speed
a- slowness, sluggishness, dilatoriness

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SYN
ANT
devious

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s- roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful
a- direct, straightforward, open, aboveboard

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SYN
ANT
gambit

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s- ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver

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SYN
ANT
halcyon

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s- (adj) tranquil, serene, placid, palmy
a- (adj) turbulent, chaotic, tumultuous

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SYN
ANT
histronic

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s- affected, stagy
a- low-keyed, muted, untheatrical, subdued

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SYN
ANT
incendiary

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s-(adj) inflammatory, provocative (n) firebrand
n-(adj) soothing, quieting (n) peacemaker

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SYN
ANT
maelstrom

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s- vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult

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SYN
ANT
myopic

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s-shortsighted
a- farsighted

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a tireless PETITIONER
s

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suppliant

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a lucky AMULET
s

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talisman

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the VORTEX of the public union
s

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maelstrom

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RIPPLE in the current
s

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undulate

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was taken in by her STRATAGEM
s

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gambit

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outraged by the DESECRATION
s

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sacrilege

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apologized for his unnecessary REBUKE
s

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animadvesion

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swam in the BRINY water
s

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brackish

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ABRUPTLY resigned from the Cabinet
s

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summarily

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behaved with her usual DECORUM
s

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propiety

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CONFRONTED the thief at the door
ss

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accost

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memories of our SERENE beginnings
s

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halycon

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completed the job with the ALACRITY
s

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celerity

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their DIROGATORY refrences to his past
s

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pejorative

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took an INDIRECT route
s

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devious

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identified the PEACEMAKER
a

Back 48

incendiary

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made a LOW-KEYED plea for mercy
a

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histrionic

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one of the most RELUCTANT participants
a

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avid

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known for FARSIGHTED thinking
a

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myopic

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took SECRET action to avoid a crisis
a

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overt