Week 2 Flashcards

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A comment and indicating strong criticism or disapproval

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Animadversion

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1
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To approach and speak to first

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Accost

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2
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Grasping, enthusiastic, or intensely eager

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Avid

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3
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Having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink

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Brackish

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4
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Rapid of movement or action

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Celerity

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5
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Straying wandering from a straight or direct course, indirect

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Devious

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6
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And opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage

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Gambit

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7
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A legendary bird

Calm, peaceful, happy, tranquil

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Halcyon

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8
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Theatrical, stagey, artificial

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Histrionic

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9
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Deliberately setting or causing fires

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Incendiary

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10
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A world full of great size and violence, chaos

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Maelstrom

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11
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Nearsighted lacking a broad, realistic view of the situation

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Myopic

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12
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Open, obvious, clear

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Overt

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13
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Tending to make worse

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Pejorative

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14
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The state of being proper, appropriateness

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Propriety

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15
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Improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred

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Sacrilege

16
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Concisely, without delay

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Summarily

17
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Asking humbly and earnestly

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Supplicant

18
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And object that serves as a charm

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Talisman

19
Q

To move in waves are with the wavelike motion, fluctuate

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Undulate