accost
synonyms: buttonhole, approach antonyms: avoid shun
animadversion
synonyms: rebuke, reproof antonyms: praise, compliment
avid
synonyms: keen, enthusiastic, grasping antonyms: reluctant, indifferent, unenthusiastic
brackish
synonyms: saline antonyms: clear, sweet
celerity
synonyms: promptness, speed antonyms: slowness, sluggishness, dilatoriness
devious
synonyms: roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful antonyms: direct, straightforward, open, aboveboard
gambit
synonyms: ploy, ruse, maneuver
halcyon
synonyms: (adj) tranquil, placid, palmy antonyms: (adj) turbulent, tumultuous
histrionic
synonyms: affected, stagy antonyms: muted, untheatrical, subdued
incendiary
synonyms: (adj) inflammatory, provocative; (n) firebrand antonyms: (adj) soothing, quieting; (n) peacemaker
maelstrom
synonyms: chaos, turbulence, tumult
myopic
synonym: shortsighted antonyms: farsighted
overt
synonyms: clear, obvious, manifest, patent antonyms: clandestine, covert, concealed
pejorative
antonyms: complimentary, ameliorative
propriety
synonyms: fitness, correctness
sacrilege
synonyms: desecration, profanation, defilement
summarily
synonyms: promptly, peremptorily
suppliant
(from google) synonyms: petitioner, applicant, suitor antonyms: self-asserting, claimant, insistent
talisman
(from google) synonyms: juju, phylactery, lucky piece antonyms: repel, dissuade, unattractiveness
undulate
synonyms: fluctuate, rise and fall