Unit 2 Vocab

Question 1

Accost

Answer 1

To confront in a challenging or aggressive manner

Question 2

Animadversion

Answer 2

A comment indicating criticism or disapproval

Question 3

Avid

Answer 3

Eager, enthusiastic

Question 4

Brackish

Answer 4

Salty, unpleasant taste

Question 5

Celerity

Answer 5

Swiftness, speed

Question 6

Devious

Answer 6

Tricky, deceitful, scheming

Question 7

Gambit

Answer 7

A move that involves sacrificing something to gain an advantage, a ploy

Question 8

Halcyon

Answer 8

Peaceful and calm

Question 9

Histronic

Answer 9

Melodramatic; theatrical

Question 10

Incendiary

Answer 10

Deliberately setting fires, stirring up trouble, arson

Question 11

Maelstrom

Answer 11

Huge, violent whirlpool, chaos, turbulence

Question 12

Myopic

Answer 12

Nearsighted, lacking a realistic view, close-minded

Question 13

Overt

Answer 13

Obvious, open

Question 14

Pejorative

Answer 14

Insulting, belittling, disapproving

Question 15

Propriety

Answer 15

Appropriateness, what is socially acceptable or proper

Question 16

Sacrilege

Answer 16

Disrespectful treatment of something held sacred

Question 17

Summarily

Answer 17

Promptly, immediately, suddenly

Question 18

Suppliant

Answer 18

Asking humbly and earnestly

Question 19

Talisman

Answer 19

An object or charm believed to grant powers

Question 20

Undulate

Answer 20

Move with wave-like motion