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accost |
(v) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or agressive way |
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animadversion |
(n) a comment indicating strong criticism or dissaproval |
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avid |
(adj) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager...like enthusiastic |
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brakish |
(adj) having a salty tase and unpleasent to drink |
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celerity |
(n) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
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devious |
(adj) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way |
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gambit |
(n) in chess, an opening move that involves rist or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type |
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halcyon |
(n) a legendary bird identifid with the kingfisher (adj) of or relating to the halcyon;calm,peaceful; happy golden prosperous |
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histrionic |
(adj) pertaining to actors and thier techniques, theatrical artificial, melodramatic |
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incendiary |
(adj) deliberatley setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up rebellion. (n) one who delibratly sets fires |
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maelstrom |
(n) a whirlpool or great size and violence; a situation resmebling a whirlpool in violence and destruction |
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myopic |
(adj) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of the situation; lacking foresight |
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overt |
(adj) open not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is not easily recognized |
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pejorative |
(adj) tending to make worse; expressing disaproval or disparagement, derogatory, belittleing |
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propriety |
(n) the state of being proper, appropriatness, standerds of what is proper |
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sacrilege |
n) improper or disrespectful treatment of seomthing held sacred |
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summarily |
(adv) without delay or formality; briefly concisley |
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suppliant |
(adj) asking humbly and earnestly; (n) one who makes a request humbly and earneslty |
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talisman |
(n) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers |
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undulate |
v) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearnce or form |
