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- to approach and speak to first
- to confront in a challenging or aggressive way
SYN: buttonhole, approach, confront |
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- a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval
SYN: rebuke, reproof |
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- desirous of something to the point of greed
- intensely eager
SYN: keen, enthusiastic, grasping |
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- having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink
SYN: briny, saline |
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- swiftness, rapidity of motion or action
SYN: promptness, alacrity, speed |
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- straying/wandering from a straight/direct course
- done in a shifty way
SYN: roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful |
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- in chess, opening move that involves risk of minor piece to gain later advantage
- an opening of this type
SYN: ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver |
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- a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher
- of or relating to the halcyon
- calm, peaceful, happy, golden
SYN: tranquil, serene, placid, palmy |
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- pertaining to actors and their techniques
- theatrical, artifical, melodramatic
SYN: affected, stagy |
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- deliberately setting fires
- designed to start fires
- stir up strife or rebellion
- arsonist
SYN: inflammatory, provocative, firebrand |
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- whirlpool of great size/violence
- stiuation resembling a whirlpool
SYN: vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult |
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- nearsighted, lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation
- lacking foresight or discernment
SYN: shortsighted |
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- open, expressed in a way that is easily recognized
SYN: clear, obvious, mainifest, patent |
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- tending to make worse
- expressing disapproval
- derogatory, belittling |
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- improper treatment of something sacred
SYN: desecration, profanation, defilement |
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- w/o delay or formality
- briefly, concisely
SYN: promptly, peremptorily, abruptly |
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- asking humbly and earnestly
- one who makes a request jumbly and earnestly |
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- object that serves as a charm or believed to have magical powers
- amulet, fetish |
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- to move in waves or w/ wavelike motion
- have wavelike appearance
SYN: ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall |
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- state of being proper
- standards of what is proper
SYN: fitness, correctness, decorum |
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