| A | B |
|---|
| accost | to approach and speak first |
| animadversion | comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval |
| avid | desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager |
| brackish | having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
| celerity | swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
| devious | straying or wandering from a straight or direct course |
| gambit | risky opening chess move, any move of this type |
| halcyon | bird/peaceful, happy, calm |
| histionic | pertaining to actors & their techniques |
| incendiary | setting or causing fires on purpose |
| maelstrom | whirlpool of great size & violence |
| myopic | nearsightedness/ not having a broad view |
| overt | open; not hidden |
| pejorative | tending to make worse; expressing disapproval |
| propriety | state of being proper |
| sacrilege | improper/disrespectful treatment of something sacred |
| summarily | w/o delay or formality; concisely |
| suppliant | asking humbly or earnestly |
| talisman | object that serves as a charm/believed to have magical powers |
| undulate | moving in waves/wavelike appearance |
