| A | B |
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| accost | (v) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way |
| animadversion | n. a comment indicating strong criticism or disaprroval |
| avid | adj. desirous of somethingto the point of greed; intensely eager |
| brackish | adj.-having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
| celerity | n.-swiftness; rapidity of motion or action |
| devious | adj.-straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way |
| 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 |
| halcyon | n.-a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; adj.-of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden;prosperous, affluent |
| histrionic | adj.-pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic |
| incedendiary | adj.-deliberately setting 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 |
| maelstrom | n.-a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction |
| myopic | adj.-nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of s situation; lacking foresight or discernment |
| overt | adj.-oopen, nothidden; expressed or reealed in a way that is easily recognized |
| pejorative | adj.-to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement; derogatory, deprecatory, belittling |
| propriety | n.-the state of being proper; appropriateness, pl.-standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |
| sacrilege | n.-improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
| summarily | adv.-without delay or formality; briefly, concisely |
| 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 or form |
