minideezel on September 25, 2008
Level G, Unit 2
2008
Sem 2 10th Grade Exam Prep, Vocabulary!!, THE COOLEST GROUP OR OVERACHIEVERS IN THE WHOLE WIDE UNIVERSE OF THE MILKY WAY, clemmonsb2cp11, clemmonsb3ap11, Catholic High 12th Grade (see more)
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accost | to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way |
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 |
devious | straying or wandering form a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way |
gambit | in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice fo a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type |
halcyon | a legendary bird identified with the king fisher; (adj) of or relating ot the halcyon; clam, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent |
histrionic | pertainig to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic |
incendiary | deliberatelky setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; (n) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who cause strife |
maelstrom | a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction |
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 recognized |
pejorative | tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling |
propriety | the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |
sacrilege | improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
summarily | without delay or formality; briefly, concisely |
suppliant | asking humply and earnestly (n) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor |
talisman | an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish |
undulate | tomove in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form |
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