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to apporach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way (verb)
accost
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a comment indicating string criticism or disapproval (noun)
animadversion
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desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager(adj)
avid
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having a salty taste and unpreasant to drink (adj)
brackish
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swiftness, rapidity of motion or action (noun)
celerity
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straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way (adj)
devious
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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 (noun)
gambit
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calm; peaceful; happy, golden properous; affluent (adj)
halcyon
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pertaining to actors and thier techniques; theatrical, artifical; melodramatic (adj)
histrionic
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deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion (adj)
arsonist; one who causes strife (noun)
incendiary
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a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction (noun)
maelstrom
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nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situaion; lacking foresight or discernment (adj)
myopic
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open; not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized (adj)
overt
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tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory (adj)
pejorative
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the state of being proper; appropriateness; standars of what is proper or socially acceptiable (noun)
propriety
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improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred (noun)
sacrilege
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without delay or formality; breifly, concisely (adj)
summarily
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asking humbly and earnestly (adj); one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitoiner, suitor (noun)
suppliant
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an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers (noun)
talisman
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to move in waves or in a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form (verb)
undulate
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