Level G Unit 2 Flashcards
To approach and speak first
Accost
A comment indicating strong criticisms or disposal
Animadversion
Desirous of something to the point of greed
Avid
Having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink
Brackish
Swiftness, rapidity or notion or action
Celerity
Starting or wandering from a straight or direct course
Devious
In chess, in opening move that involves taking a risk
Gambit
A legendary bird identified with the Kingfisher
Halcyon
Pertaining to actors and their techniques
Histrionic
Deliberately setting or causing fires
Incendiary
A whirlpool of great size of violence
Maelstrom
Nearsighted, lacking a broad realistic view of a situation
Myopic
Open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized
Overt
Tending to make worse
Pejorativea
The state of being proper
Propriety