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Accost
(v.) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way.
Animadversion
(n.) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval.
Avid
(adj.) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager.
Brackish
(adj.) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink.
Celerity
(n.) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action.
Devious
(adj.) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way.
Gambit
(n.) in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type.
Halcyon (n.)
(n.) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher.
Halcyon (adj.)
(adj.) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy golden; prosperous, affluent.
Histrionic
(adj.) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic.
Incendiary (adj.)
(adj.) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion.
Incendiary (n.)
(n.) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife.
Maelstrom
(n.) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction.
Myopic
(adj.) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment
Overt
(adj.) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized.
Pejorative
(adj.) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling.
Propriety
(n.) the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl.) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable
Sacrilege
(n.) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred.
Summarily
(adv.) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely.
Suppliant (adj.)
(adj.) asking humbly and earnestly.
Suppliant (n.)
(n.) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor.
Talisman
(n.) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish.
Undulate
(v.) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form.