Vocab Unit 2 (Synonyms and Antonyms)

accost

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