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