Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
20 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
v. to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or agressive way; buttonhole, approach, confront
|
accost
|
|
n. a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval; rebuke, reproof
|
animadversion
|
|
adj. desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager; keen, enthusiastic, grasping
|
avid
|
|
adj. having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink; briny, saline
|
brackish
|
|
n. swiftness, rapidity of motion or action; promptness, alacrity, speed
|
celerity
|
|
adj. straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way; roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful
|
devious
|
|
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; ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver
|
gambit
|
|
n. a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; adj. calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent; tranquil, serene, placid, palmy
|
halcyon
|
|
adj. pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic; affected, stagy
|
histrionic
|
|
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; adj. inflammatory, provocative; n. firebrand
|
incendiary
|
|
n. a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction; vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult
|
maelstrom
|
|
adj. nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment; shortsighted
|
myopic
|
|
adj. open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized; clear, obvious, manifest, patent
|
overt
|
|
adj. tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling
|
pejorative
|
|
n. the state of eing proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable; fitness, correctness, decorum
|
propriety
|
|
n. improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred; desecration, profanation, defilement
|
sacrilege
|
|
adv. without delay or formality; briefly, concisely; promptly, peremptorily, abruptly
|
summarily
|
|
adj. asking humbly and earnestly; n. one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor
|
suppliant
|
|
n. an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish
|
talisman
|
|
v. to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form; ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall
|
undulate
|