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| (v) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or agressive way |
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| (n) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval |
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| (adj) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager |
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| (adj) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
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| (n) swifness, rapidity of motion or action |
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| (adj) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting 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) pertaining 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 whirelpool in violence and destruction |
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| (adj) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment |
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| (adj) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |
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| (adj) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling |
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| (n) the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl.) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |
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| (n) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
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| (adv) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely |
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| (adj) asking humbly and earnestly; (n) 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 a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form |
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