(v.) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way

Syn: approach, confront

(n.) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval

Syn: rebuke, reproof

(adj.) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager

Syn: keen, enthusiastic, grasping

(adj.) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink

Syn: briny, saline

(n.) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action

Syn: promptness, alacrity, speed

(adj.) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way

Syn: roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful

(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

Syn: ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver

(n.) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher;

(adj.) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent

Syn: tranquil, serene, placid, palmy

(adj.) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic

Syn: affected, stagy

(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

Syn: inflammatory, provocative; firebrand

(n.) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction

Syn: vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult

(adj.) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment

Syn: shortsighted

(adj.) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized

Syn: clear, obvious, manifest, patent

(adj.) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling

Syn: complimentary, ameliorative

(n.) the state of being proper, appropriateness;

(pl.) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable

Syn: fitness, correctness, decorum

(n.) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred

Syn: desecration, profanation, defilement

(adv.) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely

Syn: promptly, peremptorily, abruptly

(adj.) asking humbly and earnestly;

(n.) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor

(n.) an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish

(v.) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form

Syn: ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall