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20 Cards in this Set
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Accost |
To approach and speak to first, to confront in a challenging or aggressive way. |
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Animadversion |
a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval |
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avid |
desirous or something to the point of greed: intensely eager |
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Brackish |
Having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
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Celerity |
Swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
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Devious |
Straying or wandering from a straight or direct course, done or acting in a shifty or underhand way. |
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Gambit |
Involving risk or sacrifice, to gain an advantage later on |
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halcyon |
A legendary bird identified with the kingfisher. Calm peaceful happy golden |
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Histrionic |
Pertaining to actors and their techniques, theatrical artificial |
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Incendiary |
deliberately setting or causing fires |
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maelstrom |
a whirlpool of great size and violence |
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myopic |
nearsighted lacking a broad realistic view of a situation |
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overt |
open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |
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pejorative |
tending to make worse, expressing disapproval or disparagement |
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propriety |
The state of being proper, appropriateness |
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sacrilege |
improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
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summarily |
without delay or formality, briefly concisely |
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suppliant |
asking humbly and earnestly, one who makes a request humbly and earnestly |
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talisman |
an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers |
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undulate |
to move in waves or like a wavelike motion to have a wavelike appearance or form. |
