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Unit 2 Vocab
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English
11th Grade
10/22/2012

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Accost
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To approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way.
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Animadversion
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A comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval
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Avid
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Desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager
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Brackish
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having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink
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Celerity
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Swiftness, Rapidity of motion or action
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Devious
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Straying or wandering from a straight or diect course; done or acting in a shift or underhanded way
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Gambit
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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
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Halcyon
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a legendary bird identified with the kingfish; of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent
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Histrionic
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pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic
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Incendiary
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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
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Maelstrom
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A whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction
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Myopic
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Nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of situation; lacking foresight or discerenment
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Overt
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Open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized
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Pejorative
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Tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling
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Propriety
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The state of being proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially accepted
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Sacrillege
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Improper or disrespectful treatful treatment of something held sacred
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Summarily
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Without delay or formality; briefly, concisely
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Suppliant
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Asking humbly and earnestly; one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor
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Talisman
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An object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish
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Undulate
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To move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearence or form
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