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| 33591023 | accost | (v) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way | 0 | |
| 33591024 | accost | synonyms: buttonhole, approach, confront | 1 | |
| 33591025 | accost | antonyms: evade, avoid, shun | 2 | |
| 33591026 | animadversion | (n) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval | 3 | |
| 33591027 | animadversion | synonyms: rebuke, reproof | 4 | |
| 33591028 | animadversion | antonyms: praise, compliment | 5 | |
| 33591029 | avid | (adj) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager | 6 | |
| 33591030 | avid | synonyms: keen, enthusiastic, grasping | 7 | |
| 33591031 | avid | antonyms: reluctant, indifferent, unenthusiastic | 8 | |
| 33591032 | brackish | (adj) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink | 9 | |
| 33591033 | brackish | synonyms: briny, saline | 10 | |
| 33591034 | brackish | antonyms: fresh, clear, sweet | 11 | |
| 33591035 | celerity | (n) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action | 12 | |
| 33591036 | celerity | synonyms: promptness, alacrity, speed | 13 | |
| 33591037 | celerity | antonyms: slowness, sluggishness, dilatoriness | 14 | |
| 33591038 | devious | (adj) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way | 15 | |
| 33591039 | devious | synonyms: roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful | 16 | |
| 33591040 | devious | antonyms: direct, straightforward, open, aboveboard | 17 | |
| 33591041 | 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 | 18 | |
| 33591042 | gambit | synonyms: ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver | 19 | |
| 33591043 | halcyon | (n) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher | 20 | |
| 33591044 | halcyon | (adj) of or relating to the bird; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent | 21 | |
| 33591045 | halcyon | synonyms: tranquil, serene, placid, palmy | 22 | |
| 33591046 | halcyon | antonyms: turbulent, chaotic, tumultuous | 23 | |
| 33591047 | histrionic | (adj) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic | 24 | |
| 33591048 | histrionic | synonyms: affected, stagy | 25 | |
| 33591049 | histrionic | antonyms: low-keyed, muted, untheatrical, subdued | 26 | |
| 33591050 | incendiary | (adj) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion | 27 | |
| 33591051 | incendiary | (n) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife | 28 | |
| 33591052 | incendiary | synonyms: inflammatory, provocative, firebrand | 29 | |
| 33591053 | incendiary | antonyms: soothing, quieting, peacemaker | 30 | |
| 33591054 | maelstrom | (n) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction | 31 | |
| 33591055 | maelstrom | synonyms: vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult | 32 | |
| 33591056 | myopic | (adj) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment | 33 | |
| 33591057 | myopic | synonym: shortsighted | 34 | |
| 33591058 | myopic | antonym: farsighted | 35 | |
| 33591059 | overt | (adj) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized | 36 | |
| 33591060 | overt | synonyms: clear, obvious, manifest, patent | 37 | |
| 33591061 | overt | antonyms: secret, clandestine, covert, concealed | 38 | |
| 33591062 | pejorative | (adj) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling | 39 | |
| 33591063 | pejorative | antonyms: complimentary, ameliorative | 40 | |
| 33591064 | propriety | (n) the state of being proper, appropriateness | 41 | |
| 33591065 | propriety | (pl) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable | 42 | |
| 33591066 | propriety | synonyms: fitness, correctness, decorum | 43 | |
| 33591067 | propriety | antonyms: unseemliness, inappropriateness | 44 | |
| 33591068 | sacrilege | (n) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred | 45 | |
| 33591069 | sacrilege | synonyms: desecration, profanation, defilement | 46 | |
| 33591070 | summarily | (adv) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely | 47 | |
| 33591071 | summarily | synonyms: promptly, peremptorily, abruptly | 48 | |
| 33591072 | suppliant | (adj) asking humbly and earnestly | 49 | |
| 33591073 | suppliant | (n) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor | 50 | |
| 33591074 | talisman | (n) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish | 51 | |
| 33591075 | undulate | (v) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form | 52 | |
| 33591076 | undulate | synonyms: ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall | 53 |
