Vocabulary Level G Unit 2

Front 1

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

Back 1

accost

Front 2

n. a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval

Back 2

animadversion

Front 3

adj. desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager

Back 3

avid

Front 4

adj. having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink

Back 4

brackish

Front 5

n. swiftness,rapidity of motion or action

Back 5

celerity

Front 6

adj. straying or wandering froma straight or direct course done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way

Back 6

devious

Front 7

n. in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrafice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of the type

Back 7

gambit

Front 8

n. a legendary bird indentified with the kingfisher
adj. calm, peaceful, happy, golden

Back 8

halcyon

Front 9

adj. pretaining to actors and their techniques , theatrical, artificial, melodramatic

Back 9

histrionic

Front 10

adj. deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires;tending to stir up rebellion
n. one who deliberately sets fires; arsonist

Back 10

incendiary

Front 11

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

Back 11

maelstorm

Front 12

adj. nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic viw of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment

Back 12

myopic

Front 13

adj. open,not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized

Back 13

overt

Front 14

adj. tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparement, derogatory , deprecatory, belittling

Back 14

pejorative

Front 15

n. the state of being proper, approprateness

Back 15

propriety

Front 16

n. improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred

Back 16

sacrilege

Front 17

adv. without delay or formality; briefly, concisely

Back 17

summarily

Front 18

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

Back 18

suppliant

Front 19

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

Back 19

talisman

Front 20

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

Back 20

undulate