| A | B |
|---|
| avid | intensely eager |
| halcyon | calm, peaceful |
| devious | straying from course |
| incendiary | deliberately causing fires |
| animadversion | comment indicating disapproval |
| accost | to approach and speak to first |
| covenant | a solemn agreement |
| gambit | a move that requires risk |
| brackish | salty and unpleasant |
| histrionic | artificial, melodramatic |
| celerity | swiftness |
| suppliant | asking humbly |
| propound | to offer |
| overt | open, not hidden |
| propriety | the state of being proper |
| undulate | to move in a wavelike motion |
| sacrilege | improper or disrespectful treatment |
| talisman | charm believed to confer magical powers |
| myopic | lacking a broad realistic view |
| summarily | without delay, concisely |
| pejorative | expressing disapproval |
| maelstrom | a whirlpool of great size or situation resembling such |
