Terms : Hide Images
| 7619325722 | Accost(verb) | - To approach and speak to first - To confront in a challenging or aggressive way |  | 0 |
| 7619325723 | Animadversion (noun) | - A comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval |  | 1 |
| 7619325724 | Avid (adjective) | - having desire for something to the point of greed - intensely eager |  | 2 |
| 7619325725 | Brackish (adjective) | - having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |  | 3 |
| 7619325726 | Celerity (noun) | - swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |  | 4 |
| 7619325727 | Devious (adjective) | - straying or wandering from a straight or direct course - done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way |  | 5 |
| 7619325728 | Gambit (noun) | - 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 |
| 7619325729 | Halycon (noun) (adjective) | n - a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher adj - of or relating to the halcyon - calm, peaceful - happy, golden - prosperous, affluent |  | 7 |
| 7619325730 | Histrionic (adjective) | - pertaining to actors and their techniques - theatrical, artificial - melodramatic |  | 8 |
| 7619325731 | Incendiary (adjective) (noun) | 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 strike |  | 9 |
| 7619325732 | Maelstrom (noun) | - a whirlpool of great size and violence - a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction |  | 10 |
| 7619325733 | Myopic (adjective) | - nearsighted - lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation - lacking foresight or discernment |  | 11 |
| 7619325734 | Overt (adjective) | adj - open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |  | 12 |
| 7619325735 | Pejorative (adjective) | - tending to make worse - expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling |  | 13 |
| 7619325736 | Propriety (noun) (plural) | n - the state of being proper, appropriateness pl - standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |  | 14 |
| 7619325737 | Sacrilege (noun) | - improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |  | 15 |
| 7619325738 | Summarily (adverb) | - without delay or formality - briefly, concisely |  | 16 |
| 7619325739 | Suppliant (adjective) (noun) | adj - asking humbly and earnestly n - one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor |  | 17 |
| 7619325740 | Talisman (noun) | - an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish |  | 18 |
| 7619325741 | Undulate (verb) | - to move in waves or with a wavelike motion - to have a wavelike appearance or form |  | 19 |
