lang

Accost

to confront in a challenging way (v)

Animadversion

a comment of disapproval (n)

Avid

enthusiastic, eager (adj)

Brackish

salty, briny (adj)

Celerity

swiftness, promptness (n)

Devious

tricky; wandering off course (adj)

Gambit

opening move in chess, play or stratagem (n)

Halcyon

calm, happy, peaceful, affluent (adj)

Histrionic

pertaining to theater (adj)

Incendiary

deliberately setting/causing fire (adj)

Maelstrom

a whirlpool of great size (n)

Myopic

nearsighted, lacking a broad view (adj)

Overt

Clear, open (adj)

Pejorative

tending to make worse (adj)

Propriety

the state of being proper (n)

Sacrilege

disrespect of something sacred (n)

Summarily

without delay, promptly (adv)

Suppliant

asking humbly (adj)

Talisman

charm, an object with special powers (n)

Undulate

to move in a wave-like fashion (v)