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| 5048905589 | accost | (v.) to approach and speak to first; to comfort in a challenging or aggressive way | 0 | |
| 5048909132 | animadversion | (n.) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval | 1 | |
| 5048912572 | avid | (adj.) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager | 2 | |
| 5048916288 | brackish | (adj.) having a salty taste and unpleasant drink | 3 | |
| 5048919023 | celerity | (n.) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action | 4 | |
| 5048921003 | devious | (adj.) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way | 5 | |
| 5048927598 | gambit | (n.) 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 | 6 | |
| 5048933572 | halcyon | (n.) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj.) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden, prosperous, affluent | 7 | |
| 5048942835 | histrionic | (adj.) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic | 8 | |
| 5048948403 | 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 | 9 | |
| 5048956178 | maelstrom | (n.) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction | 10 | |
| 5048960971 | myopic | (adj.) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment | 11 | |
| 5048965080 | overt | (adj.) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized | 12 | |
| 5048969390 | pejorative | (adj.) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecator, belittling | 13 | |
| 5048974983 | propriety | (n.) the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pt.) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable | 14 | |
| 5048981761 | sacrilege | (n.) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred | 15 | |
| 5048987151 | summarily | (adv.) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely | 16 | |
| 5048991519 | suppliant | (adj.) asking humbly and earnestly; (n.) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor | 17 | |
| 5048997488 | talisman | (n.) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish | 18 | |
| 5049001227 | undulate | (v.) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form | 19 |
