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| Accost (verb) | approach and speak to first; confront in a challenging or aggressive way |
| Animadversion (noun) | a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval |
| Avid (adjective) | desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager |
| Brackish (adjective) | having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
| Celerity (noun) | swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
| Devious (adjective) | straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhand way |
| Gambit (noun) | in chess and opening move that involves risk or sacrifice or a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type |
| Halcyon (noun or adjective) | (n) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent |
| Histrionic (adjective) | pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic |
| Incendiary (adjective or noun) | adj) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to sir up strife or rebellion; (n) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who cases strife |
| Maelstrom (noun) | whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction |
| Myopic (adjective) | nearsighted, lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment |
| Overt (adjective) | open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is not easily recognized |
| Pejorative (adjective) | tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling |
| Propriety (noun) | the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl) standards of what is proper o |
| Sacrilege (noun) | improper or disrespectful treatment |
| Summarily (adverb) | without delay or formality; briefly, concisely |
| Suppliant (adjective or noun) | (adj) asking humbly and earnestly (n) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor |
| Talisman (noun) | an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish |
| Undulate (verb) | to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form |
