Unit 2 Flashcards

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Animadversion

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A comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval

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Accost

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

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Avid

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Desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager

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Brackish

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Having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink

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Celerity

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Swiftness; rapidity of motion

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Devious

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Straying from a straight or direct course, done in a underhanded way

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Gambit

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

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Halcyon

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A legendary bird identified with the Kingfisher; calm, peaceful, happy, Golden, prosperous, affluent

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Histrionic

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

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Incendiary

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Deliberately causing fires; decide to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; one who deliberately sets fires

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Maelstrom

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

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Myopic

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Nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of the situation; lacking foresight or discernment

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Overt

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Open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized

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Pejorative

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Tending to make worse; expressing disapproval, belittling

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Propriety

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The state of being proper; appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable

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Sacrilege

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Improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred

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Summarily

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Without delay or formality; briefly, concisely

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Suppliant

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Asking humbly and earnestly; one who makes a request humbly and earnestly

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Talisman

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

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Undulate

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