Week 2 Flashcards
A comment and indicating strong criticism or disapproval
Animadversion
To approach and speak to first
Accost
Grasping, enthusiastic, or intensely eager
Avid
Having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink
Brackish
Rapid of movement or action
Celerity
Straying wandering from a straight or direct course, indirect
Devious
And opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage
Gambit
A legendary bird
Calm, peaceful, happy, tranquil
Halcyon
Theatrical, stagey, artificial
Histrionic
Deliberately setting or causing fires
Incendiary
A world full of great size and violence, chaos
Maelstrom
Nearsighted lacking a broad, realistic view of the situation
Myopic
Open, obvious, clear
Overt
Tending to make worse
Pejorative
The state of being proper, appropriateness
Propriety
Improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred
Sacrilege
Concisely, without delay
Summarily
Asking humbly and earnestly
Supplicant
And object that serves as a charm
Talisman
To move in waves are with the wavelike motion, fluctuate
Undulate