| A | B |
|---|
| accost | (v) to approach and speak to first |
| animadversion | (n) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval |
| avid | (adj) desirous of something to the point of greed intensely eager |
| brackish | (adj) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
| celerity | ((n) swiftnes rapidity of motion or action |
| convenant | (n) solemu agreement |
| devious | (adj) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course roundabolut acting shifty or underhanded |
| gambit | (n) in chess an opening move that involves the risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain advantage at a later time, any opening move of this type |
| halcyon | (n) a bird identified wiht the kingfisher |
| halcyon | (adj) calm peaceful happy golden prosperous affluent |
| histrionic | (ajd) pertaining to actors and their techniques theatrical, artaificial melodramatic |
| incendiary | (adj) deliberately setting or causing fires, designed to start fires,tending to stir up |
| incendiary | (n) one who deliberately stats fires or causes strife |
| maelstrom | (n) a whirlpool of great size and violence or a situation resemblling a whirlpool in volence and destruction |
| myopic | (adj) nearsighted lacking a broad realistic view of a stiuation lacking foresight or discernment |
| overt | (adj) open not hidden expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |
| pejorative | (adj) tending to make worse, expressing disapproval or disparagement |
| propound | (v) to put forward, offer, suggest for consideration to set forth |
| propriety | (n) the state of being proper, appropriateness standards of what is proper or socially acceptible |
| sacrilege | (n) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
| summarily | (adv) without delay or formality briefly concisely |
| suppliant | (adj) asking humbly and earnestly |
| suppliant | (n) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly |
| talisman | (n) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers |
| undulate | (v) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion: to have a wavelike appearance or form |
