Quizlet 12th grade English

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  1. Accost: approach and speak first to a person
  2. Arrogate: seize and take control without authority and possibly with force
  3. Articulate: speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way
  4. Banal: hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality; clich\'ed
  5. Belabor: to work at or to absurd length
  6. Carping: fault finding, petty criticism
  7. Cavort: to bound or prance about.
  8. Credence: acceptance as true or valid, belief, trustworthyness
  9. Invidious: causing animosity or resentment, hateful; offensive
  10. Largesse: (n.) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions
  11. Murky: so shaded as to be dark or gloomy
  12. Nefarious: extremely wicked
  13. Piquant: stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative
  14. Primordial: first created or developed, existing in or from the very beginning
  15. Propinquity: nearness in time or place, affinity of nature
  16. acquisitive: (adj.) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property
  17. animadversion: (n) a comment indicating strong criticism or dissaproval
  18. avid: (adj) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager...like enthusiastic
  19. brackish: somewhat salty; also, distasteful.
  20. celerity: (n) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action
  21. decry: condemn: express strong disapproval of
  22. devious: (adj) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way
  23. dissemble: disguise; pretend
  24. distraught: (adj.) very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict
  25. gambit: a chess move early in the game in which the player sacrifices minor pieces in order to obtain an advantageous position
  26. halcyon: (n) a legendary bird identifid with the kingfisher (adj) of or relating to the halcyon;calm,peaceful; happy golden prosperous
  27. histrionic: characteristic of acting or a stage performance
  28. incendiary: capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily
  29. maelstrom: (n) a whirlpool or great size and violence; a situation resmebling a whirlpool in violence and destruction
  30. myopic: (adj) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of the situation; lacking foresight
  31. reconnaissance: survey of enemy by soldiers; reconnoitering; V. reconnoiter: make a preliminary inspection of (esp. to gather military information)
  32. substantiate: establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
  33. taciturn: habitually silent, talking little
  34. temporize: to stall
  35. tenable: (adj.) capable of being held or defended
  36. unwonted: (adj.) not usual or expected; not in character
  37. utopian: (adj.) founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical
  38. verbiage: Use of many words without necessity.
  39. verdant: (adj.) green in tint or color; immature in experience or judgment
  40. viscous: having a gelatinous or gluey quality, lacking in easy movement or fluidity