| A | B |
|---|
| avid | desirous of something to the point of greed, intensely eager |
| halcyon | a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; calm, peaceful, happy, golden, affluent |
| devious | straying or wandering from a straight or direct curse, roundabout; done or acting in a shifty or underheanded way |
| accost | to approach and speak to first |
| incendiary | deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to startfires |
| animadversion | a comment indicating strong ciriticism or disapproval |
| covenant | a solemn agreement |
| gambit | in chess, an opening move that involves the risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage |
| brackish | having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
| histrionic | pertaining to actors and their tecniques; theatrical, artificial |
| celerity | swiftness, rapidity of motion or action responded with suprise |
| suppliant | asking humbly and earnestly, |
| propound | to put forward, offer suggest for consideration |
| propriety | the state of being proper, appropriateness |
| overt | open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that iseadily recognized |
| undulate | to move in waves or with a wavelike motion |
| sacrilege | improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
| talisman | an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers |
| myopic | nearsighted, lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation |
| summarily | without delay or formality; briefly, concisely |
| pejorative | tending to make worse, expressing disapproval or disparagement |
| maelstrom | a whirlpool of great size and violence |
| ANTONYM for celerity | sluggishness |
| ANTONYM for overt | clandestine |
| ANTONYM for animadversion | pat on the back |
| ANTONYM for pejorative | ameliorative |
| ANTONYM for propriety | inapropriateness |
| ANTONYM for avid | indifferent |
| ANTONYM for histrionic | untheatrical |
| ANTONYM for halcyon | chaotic |
