Vocabulary Workshop Level G Unit 2
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Created by:
bballch100 on August 9, 2007
Classes:
Comp 101 Honors, APLAC THS Pd 3
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22 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 accost | to approach and speak to first |
| animadversion | a comment meant to show strong criticism |
| avid | intensely eager, wanting something to the point of greed |
| brackish | having a salty taste |
| celerity | swiftness; rapid movements |
| covenant | a solemn agreement |
| devious | done in a shifty way, stray from the straight course |
| gambit | an opening move that involves a risk in order to make a gain |
| halycon | calm, peaceful, happy |
| histrionic | theatrical, melodramatic, pertaining to acting techniques |
| incendiary | deliberately setting or causing fires |
| maelstrom | a whirlpool of great size and violence |
| myopic | nearsighted; unable to see the big picture |
| overt | open; not hidden |
| pejorative | tending to make worse |
| propound | to put forward, offer, suggest for consideration |
| propriety | the state of being proper; appropriate |
| sacrilege | disrespectful treatment of something believed to be sacred |
| summarily | without delay; briefly; concise |
| suppliant | someone who makes a humble request or plea |
| talisman | an object believed to hold magical powers |
| undulate | to move in a wavelike manner |
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