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Java Games: Flashcards, matching, concentration, and word search. |
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| Accost | (v) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way; (SYN) buttonhole, approach, confront; (ANT) evade, avoid, shun. Ex. The nobleman was ______ by beggars on his way to the castle. |
| Animadversion | (n) a comment indicating stong critcism or dissaproval; (SYN) rebuke, reproof; (ANT) praise, compliment. The inexperienced filmmaker was disheartened by the ______ of the film critic. |
| Avid | (adj) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager; (SYN) keen, enthusiastic, grasping; (ANT) reluctant, indifferent, unenthusiastic. Ex. Most writers are also ______ readers who have loved books since childhood. |
| Brackish | (adj) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink; (SYN) briny, saline; (ANT) fresh, clear, sweet. Ex. The shipwrecked passengers adrift on the lifeboat became ill after drinking ______ water. |
| Celerity | (n) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action; (SYN) promptness, alacrity, speed; (ANT) slowness, sluggishness, dilatoriness. Ex. Although the heavy snowfall was not expected, the highway department responded with surprising ______. |
| Devious | (adj) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way; (SYN) roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful; (ANT) direct, straightforward, open, aboveboard. Ex. The interrogator used ______ methods to try to get the suspect to incriminate himself. |
| Gambit | (n) 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; (SYN) ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver. Ex. Asking an interesting stranger about his or her job is a popular party ______. |
| Halcyon | (n) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent; (SYN) tranquil, serene, placid, palmy; (ANT) turbulent, chaotic, tumultuous. The teacher read the legend of the ______, amythic bird that nested in a calm sea. Ex. The woman often spoke of the ______ days of her childhood. |
| Histrionic | (adj) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial, melodramatic; (SYN) affected, stagy; (ANT) low-keyed, muted, untheatrical, subdued. Ex. Upon receiving his award, the young actor gave a ______ speech. |
| Incendiary | (adj) deliberately setting up or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; (n) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife; (SYN) inflammatory, provacative, firebrand; (ANT) soothing, quieting, peacemaker. Ex. Teh arsonist planted an ______ device in the basement of the store. Ex. The radical ______ was senteced to life imprisonment. |
| Maelstrom | (n) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction. Syn: vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult. Ex. Many innocent people caught in the ______ of the revolution lost their lives and property. |
| Myopic | (adj) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment; (SYN) shortsighted; (ANT) farsighted. Ex. Teh ______ foreign policy of the last administration has led to serious problems with our allies. |
| Overt | (adj) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized (SYN) clear, obvious, manifest, patent; (ANT) secret, clandestine, covert, concealed. |
| Pejorative | (adj) tending to make worse; expressing dissaproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling (ANT) complimentary, ameliorative |
| Propriety | (n) the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable (SYN) fitness, correctness, decorum (ANT) unseemliness, inapropriateness |
| Sacrilege | (n) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred (SYN) desecration, profanation, defilement |
| Summarily | (adv) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely (SYN) promptly, peremptorily, abruptly |
| Suppliant | (adj) asking humbly and earnestly; (n) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor |
| Talisman | (n) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish |
| Undulate | (v) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance in form; (SYN) ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall |
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