AP lit
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238267773 | accost | to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way | |
238267774 | animadversion | (n.) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval | |
238267775 | avid | desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager | |
238267776 | brackish | having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink | |
238267777 | celerity | swiftness, rapidity of motion or action | |
238267778 | devious | straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way | |
238267779 | gambit | 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 | |
238267780 | halcyon | (n.) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj.) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent | |
238267781 | histrionic | pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic | |
238267782 | incendairy | to set on fire, to set on fire | |
238267783 | maelstrom | a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction | |
238267784 | myopic | Nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment | |
238267785 | overt | open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized | |
238267786 | pejorative | tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling | |
238267787 | propriety | the state of being proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable | |
238267788 | sacrilege | (n.) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred | |
238267789 | summarily | without delay or formality; briefly, concisely | |
238267790 | suppliant | asking humbly and earnestly; one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor | |
238267791 | talisman | an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish | |
238267792 | undulate | to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form |