Vocab Week 2

Question 0

A comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval

Answer 0

Animadversion (n)
S: rebuke, reproof
A: praise, compliment

Question 1

To approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way.

Answer 1

Accost (v)
S: buttonhole, approach
A: evade shun

Question 2

Devious of something to the point of greed; intensely eager

Answer 2

Avid (adj)
S: keen, enthusiastic, grasping
A: reluctant, indifferent

Question 3

Having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink

Answer 3

Brackish(adj)
S:briny, saline
A: fresh, clear

Question 4

Swiftness, rapidity of motion or action

Answer 4

Celerity (n)
S: promptness, alacrity, speed
A: slowness, sluggishness, dilator ones

Question 5

Straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way

Answer 5

Devious (adj)
S: roundabout, indirect, sly, artful
A: aboveboard, direct

Question 6

In chess, an opening moved involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type

Answer 6

Gambit (n)

S: ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver

Question 7

A legendary bird identified with the kind fisher; (adj) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peace, happy; affluent

Answer 7

Halcyon (n/adj)
S: tranquil, serene, placid, palmy
A: turbulentc tumultuous, chaotic

Question 8

Pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic

Answer 8

Histrionic (adj)
S: addicted, stagy
A: low-keyed, mired, subdued

Question 9

Deliberately seeing or causing fires; designed to start fires; arsonist

Answer 9

Incendiary (adj)
S: inflammatory, provocative
A: soothing, quieting, peacemaker

Question 10

A whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool

Answer 10

Maelstrom(n)

S: vortex, Chaos, turbulence, tumult

Question 11

Nearsighted, lacking a broad, realistic use of a situation

Answer 11

Myopic(adj)

S: shortsighted

Question 12

Open, not hidden, expressed or revealed I a. Way that is easily recognized

Answer 12

Overt (adj)
S: clear, onions, manifest patent
A: secrets clandestine, covert, concealed

Question 13

Tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory

Answer 13

Pejorative (adj)

A: complimentary, ameliorative

Question 14

The state of being proper, approprateness

Answer 14

Propriety (n)
S: fitness, correctness, decorum
A: unseemlines

Question 15

Improper or disrespectful treatment of something help sacred

Answer 15

Sacrilege (n)

S: desecration, defilement, profanation

Question 16

Without delay or formality; briefly concisely

Answer 16

Summarily (adv)

S: promptly, peremptorily, abruptly

Question 17

Asking humbly and earnestly; one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor

Answer 17

Suppliants

Question 18

An object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulets fetish

Answer 18

Talisman

Question 19

To move in wars or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance form

Answer 19

Undulate

S: ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall