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Accost

Accost

V. To approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way

Brackish

Adj. having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink

Celerity

N. Swiftness, rapidity of motion or action

Halcyon

N. A legendary bird identified with the kingfisher

Adj. of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent

Incendiary

Adj. deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion

N. One who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife

Maelstrom

N. A whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling whirlpool in violence and destruction

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

Suppliant

N. One who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor

Undulate

V. To move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form

Animadversion

N. A comment indication strong criticism or disapproval

Avid

Adj. desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager

Devious

Adj. straying or wandering from a direct or straight course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way

Gambit

N. In chess, an opening move that involves a risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type

Histrionic

Adj. pertaining to actor and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic

Myopic

Adj. nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment

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

Talisman

N. An object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish

mid-

middle

mis-

wrong, badly

-meter-

measure

-micro-

small, tiny

-morph-

shape, form

-mis-

wrong, badly

-mitt-

to send