| A | B |
|---|
| accost | buttonhole, approach, confront |
| animadversion | rebuke, reproof |
| avid | keen, enthusiastic, grasping |
| brackish | briny, saline |
| celerity | promptness, alacrity, speed |
| devious | roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful |
| gambit | ploy, stratagem, ruse maneuver |
| halcyon | tranquil, serene, placid, palmy |
| histrionic | affected, stagy |
| incendiary | inflammatory, provocative, n.- firebrand |
| maelstrom | vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult |
| myopic | shortsighted |
| overt | clear, obvious, manifest, patent |
| pejorative | pejorative |
| propriety | fitness, correctness, decorum |
| sacrilege | desecration, profanation, defilement |
| summarily | promptly, peremptorily, abruptly |
| suppliant | suppliant |
| talisman | talisman |
| undulate | ripple, fluctuate, rise & fall |
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