Vocab unit 2

Question 1

intensely eager (adj)

Answer 1

avid

Question 2

calm, peaceful, happy (adj)

Answer 2

halcyon

Question 3

sneaky; roundabout (adj)

Answer 3

devious

Question 4

to approach and speak to first (v)

Answer 4

accost

Question 5

setting fire or causing fires; tending to stir rebellion; one who stirs rebellion (adj, n)

Answer 5

incendiary

Question 6

a comment of strong disapproval (n)

Answer 6

animadversion

Question 7

in chess, an opening move involving risk; an opening move (n)

Answer 7

gambit

Question 8

having a salty taste (adj)

Answer 8

brakish

Question 9

theoretical (adj)

Answer 9

histrionic

Question 10

swiftness (n)

Answer 10

celerity

Question 11

asking humbly; one who asks humbly (adj, n)

Answer 11

suppliant

Question 12

the state of being proper; appropriateness (adj)

Answer 12

propriety (n)

Question 13

open, direct (adj)

Answer 13

overt

Question 14

to move in waves or wavelike motion (v)

Answer 14

undulate

Question 15

disrespectful treatment of something held sacred (n)

Answer 15

sacrilege

Question 16

an object believed to have magic powers (n)

Answer 16

talisman

Question 17

nearsighted; lacking a broad view; narrow minded (adj)

Answer 17

myopic

Question 18

without delay; briefly, concisely (adv)

Answer 18

summarily

Question 19

tending to make worse; expressing disapproval (adj)

Answer 19

pejorative

Question 20

a whirlpool of great size and violence; a violent situation (n)

Answer 20

maelstrom