Synonyms Unit 2 Vocab Workshop Book G Flashcards

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Animadversion

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Rebuke, reproof

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Accost

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Buttonhole, approach, confront

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Avid

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Keen, enthusiastic, grasping

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Brackish

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Briny, saline

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Celerity

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Promptness, alacrity, speed

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Devious

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Roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful

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Gambit

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Ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver

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Halcyon

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Tranquil, serene, placid, palmy

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Histrionic

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Affected, stagy

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Incendiary

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Inflammatory, firebrand, provocative

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Maelstrom

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Vortex, chaos, turbulence, turnult

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Myopic

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Shortsighted

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Avert

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Clear, obvious, manifest, patent

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Propriety

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Fitness, correctness, decorum

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Sacrilege

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Desecration, profanation, defilement

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Summarily

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Promptly, peremptorily, abruptly

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Undulate

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Ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall