| A | B |
|---|
| accost | to confront in a challenging or aggressive way |
| animadversion | a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval |
| avid | desirous of something to the point of greed |
| brackish | having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
| celerity | swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
| devious | done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way |
| gambit | in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage |
| halcyon | happy, golden |
| histrionic | pertaining to actors and their techniques |
| incendiary | designed to start fires |
| maelstrom | a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction |
| myopic | lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation |
| overt | expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |
| pejorative | tending to make worse |
| propriety | standard of what is proper or socially acceptable |
| sacrilege | improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
| summarily | without delay or formality |
| suppliant | asking humbly and earnestly |
| talisman | an object that serves as a charm |
| undulate | to have a wavelike appearance or form |
