Flashcards: Vocab Level G Unit 2
All 20 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Accost | (v) approach and speak to first; confront in a challenging or aggressive way S: buttonhole, approach, confront A: evade, avoid, shun |
| Animadversion | (n) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval S: rebuke, reproof A: praise, compliment |
| Avid | (adj) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager S: keen, enthusiastic, grasping A: reluctant, indifferent, unenthusiastic |
| Brackish | (adj) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink S: briny, saline A: fresh, clear, sweet |
| Celerity | (n) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action S: promptness, alacrity, speed A: slowness, sluggishness, dilatoriness |
| Devious | (adj) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhand way S: roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful A: direct, straightforward, open, aboveboard |
| Gambit | (n) in chess and opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type S: ploy stratagem, ruse, maneuver |
| Halcyon | (n) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent S: tranquil, serene, placid, palmy A: turbulent, chaotic, tumultuous |
| Histrionic | (adj) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic S: affected, stagy A: low-keyed, muted, untheatrical, subdued |
| Incendiary | (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 | (n) whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction A: vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult |
| Myopic | (adj) nearsighted, lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment S: shortsighted A: farsighted |
| Overt | (adj) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is not easily recognized S: clear, obvious, manifest, patent A: secret, clandestine, covert, concealed |
| Pejorative | (adj) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling A: complimentary ameliorative |
| Propriety | (n) the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |
| Sacrilege | (n) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred S: desecration, profanation, defilement |
| Summarily | (adv) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely S: promptly, peremptorily |
| Suppliant | (adj) asking humbly and earnestly (n) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor |
| Talisman | (n) an object that srves as a charm r is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish |
| Undulate | (v) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form S: ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall |
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