Junior Year Vocab 2
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| 83141153 | accost | To approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way | |
| 83141154 | animadversion | A comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval | |
| 83141155 | avid | Desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager | |
| 83141156 | brackish | Having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink (like cum) | |
| 83141157 | celerity | Swiftness, rapidity of motion or action | |
| 83141158 | devious | Straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way | |
| 83141159 | 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 | |
| 83141160 | halcyon | A legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent | |
| 83141161 | histrionic | Pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic | |
| 83141162 | incendiary | Deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife | |
| 83141163 | maelstrom | A whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction | |
| 83141164 | myopic | Nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment | |
| 83141165 | overt | Open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized | |
| 83141166 | pejorative | Tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling | |
| 83141167 | propriety | The state of being proper, appropriateness; (plural) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable | |
| 83141168 | sacrilege | Improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred | |
| 83141169 | summarily | Without delay or formality; briefly, concisely | |
| 83141170 | suppliant | Asking humbly and earnestly; one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor | |
| 83141171 | talisman | An object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish | |
| 83141172 | undulate | To move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form |