| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Accost | to apporach and speak first |
| Animadversion | a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval |
| Avid | desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager |
| Brackish | having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
| Celerity | swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
| Covenant | a solemn agreement |
| Devious | straying or wandering from a straight or direct course, roundabout; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way |
| Gambit | in chess, an opening move that involves the risk or sacrifice of a minor piece; order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type |
| Halcyon | (n) a legendary bird identified with the king fisher (adj) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, goden; prosperous, affluent |
| Incendiary | (n) one who deliberately starts fires; one who cause strife (adj) deliberately setting or causing fies; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion |
| Histrionic | pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artifical, melodramatic |
| Maelstrom | a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and estruction |
| Myopic | nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment |
| Overt | open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily reognized |
| Pejorative | tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement |
| Propound | to put forward; offer, suggest for consideration; to set forth |
| Propriety | the state of being proper, app |
| Sacrilege | improper or disrespectful reatment of something held sacred |
| Summarily | without delay or formality; briefly, concisely |
| Suppliant | asking humbly and earnestly |
| Talisman | an object that serves as a charm or is belived to confer magical powers |
| Undulate | to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form |
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