Setzer - AP Comp. - Unit 2
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| 139915407 | accost | (v.) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way | |
| 139915408 | animadversion | (n.) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval | |
| 139915409 | avid | (adj.) desirous of something to point of greed; intensely eager | |
| 139915410 | brackish | (adj.) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink | |
| 139915411 | celerity | (n.) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action | |
| 140999055 | covenant | (n.) a solemn agreement; a contract; a pledge | |
| 139915412 | devious | (adj.) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way | |
| 139915413 | 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 | |
| 139915414 | halcyon | (n.) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj.) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent | |
| 139915415 | histrionic | (adj.) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic | |
| 139915416 | 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 | |
| 139915417 | maelstrom | (n.) a whirlpool or great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction | |
| 139915418 | myopic | (adj.) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment | |
| 139915419 | overt | (adj.) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized | |
| 139915420 | pejorative | (adj.) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling | |
| 140999056 | propound | (v.) to put forward, offer, suggest for consideration; to set forth | |
| 139915421 | propriety | (n.) the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl.) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable | |
| 139915422 | sacrilege | (n.) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred | |
| 139915423 | summarily | (adv.) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely | |
| 139915424 | suppliant | (adj.) asking humbly and earnestly; (n.) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor | |
| 139915425 | talisman | (n.) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish | |
| 139915426 | undulate | (v.) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form |