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| (v.) to approach and to speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way |
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| (n.) comment indicating strong criticism or disaproval |
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| (adj.) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensly eager |
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| (adj.) having a salty taste, or unpleasant to drink |
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| (n.) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
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| (adj.) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done in a shifty or underhanded way |
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| (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 |
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| (n.) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj.) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent |
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| (adj.) pertaning to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic |
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| (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 |
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| (n.) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction |
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| (adj.) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of the situation; lacking forsight or discernment |
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| (adj.) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easliy recognized |
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| (adj.) tending to make worse; expressing dissaproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belitting |
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| (n.) the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl.) stands for what is proper or socially acceptable |
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| (n.) improper or disrepectful treatment of something held sacred |
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| (adv.) without delay or formality; briefly or concisely |
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| (adj.) asking humbly and earnestl; one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor |
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| (n.) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers; an amulet, fetish |
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| (v.) to move in waves or with wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form |
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