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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 involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type
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Gambit
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a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent
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Halcyon
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pertaining to 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 strife or rebellion; one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife
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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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the state of being proper, appropriateness, standards of what is proper or socially acceptable
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Propriety
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tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling
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Pejorative
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improper or disrespectful treatment of something held scared
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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, one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor
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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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