English Vocabulary Unit 2
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- Accost
- To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
- Animadversion
- Strong criticism
- Avid
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1. Having an ardent desire or unbounded craving; greedy
2.Marked by keen interest and enthusiasm: an avid sports fan. - Brackish
- Distasteful; unpalatable: a thin, brackish gruel.
- Celerity
- Swiftness of action or motion; speed
- Devious
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1.Not straightforward; shifty
2.Deviating from the straight or direct course; roundabout - Gambit
- A remark intended to open a conversation.
- Halcyon
- A fabled bird, identified with the kingfisher, that was supposed to have had the power to calm the wind and the waves while it nested on the sea during the winter solstice
- Histrionic
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1.Of or relating to actors or acting
2.Excessively dramatic or emotional; affected - Incendiary
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1.Causing or capable of causing fire
2.An arsonist - Maelstrom
- A violent or turbulent situation: caught in the maelstrom of war.
- Myopic
- A visual defect in which distant objects appear blurred because their images are focused in front of the retina rather than on it; nearsightedness.
- Overt
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Open and observable; not hidden, concealed, or secret: overt hostility; overt intelligence gathering.
2.Of, relating to, or being military or intelligence operations sanctioned or mandated by Congress: overt aid to the rebels. - Propriety
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1. The quality of being proper; appropriateness
2.Conformity to prevailing customs and usages - Pejorative
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1. Tending to make or become worse
2. Disparaging; belittling. - Sacrilege
- Desecration, profanation, misuse, or theft of something sacred.
- Summarily
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1.Presenting the substance in a condensed form; concise: a summary review
2.Performed speedily and without ceremony: summary justice; a summary rejection - Suppliant
- Asking humbly and earnestly; beseeching
- Talisman
- An object marked with magic signs and believed to confer on its bearer supernatural powers or protection.
- Undulate
- To cause to move in a smooth wavelike motion