Vocabulary Workshop Level G Unit 2 synonyms and antonyms

accost

s: buttonhole, approach, confront

a: evade, avoid, shun

animadversion

s: rebuke, reproof

a: praise, compliment

avid

s: keen, enthusiastic, grasping

a: reluctant, indifferent, unenthusiastic

brackish

s: briny, saline

an: fresh, clear, sweet

celerity

s: promptness, alacrity, speed

a: slowness, sluggishness, dilatoriness

devious

s: roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful

a: direct, straightforward, open, aboveboard

gambit

s: ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver

halcyon

s: tranquil, serene, placid, palmy

a: turbulent, chaotic, tumultuous

histrionic

s: affected, stagy

a: low-keyed, muted, untheatrical, subdued

incendiary

s: inflammatory, provocative, firebrand

a: soothing, quieting, peacemaker

maelstrom

s: vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult

myopic

s: shortsighted

a: farsighted

overt

s: clear, obvious, manifest, patent

a: secret, clandestine, covert, concealed

pejorative

a: complimentary, ameliorative

propriety

s: fitness, correctness, decorum

a: unseemliness, inappropriateness

sacrilege

s: desecration, profanation, defilement

summarily

s: promptly, peremptorily, abruptly

undulate

syn: ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall