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| 11428364669 | accost | to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way | 0 | |
| 11428367867 | animadversion | a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval | 1 | |
| 11428370814 | avid | desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager | 2 | |
| 11428380873 | brackish | having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink | 3 | |
| 11428383355 | celerity | swiftness, rapidity of motion or action | 4 | |
| 11428389951 | devious | (adj.) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way | 5 | |
| 11428392522 | 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 | |
| 11428394514 | halcyon | (n.) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj.) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent | 7 | |
| 11428397021 | histrionic | (adj.) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic | 8 | |
| 11428400510 | 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 | |
| 11428403071 | maelstrom | (n.) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction | 10 | |
| 11428407406 | myopic | (adj.) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment | 11 | |
| 11428411186 | overt | (adj.) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized | 12 | |
| 11428413658 | pejorative | (adj.) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling | 13 | |
| 11428413659 | propriety | (n) the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable | 14 | |
| 11428415819 | sacrilege | improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred | 15 | |
| 11428419299 | summarily | (adv.) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely | 16 | |
| 11428419300 | suppliant | (adj.) asking humbly and earnestly; (n.) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor | 17 | |
| 11428422328 | talisman | (n.) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish | 18 | |
| 11428424380 | undulate | (v.) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form | 19 |
