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Accost
To approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way
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Animadversion
A comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval
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Avid
Desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager
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Brackish
Having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink
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Celerity
Swiftness, rapidity of motion or action
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Devious
Straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way
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Gambit
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.
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Halcyon
A legendary bird identified with the king fisher; (adj) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent
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Histionic
Pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic
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Incendiary
Deliberatley 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
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Maelstrom
A whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destuction
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Myopic
Nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment
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Overt
Open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized
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Pejorative
Tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling
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Propriety
The state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable
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Sacrilege
Improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred
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Summarily
Without delay or formality; briefly, concisely
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Suppliant
Asking humbly and earnestly; (n) One who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor.
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Talisman
An object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish
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Undulate
To move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have wavelike appearnce or form
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