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(n) A comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval
Synonyms: rebuke, reproof
Antonyms: praise, compliment |
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(v) To approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way
Synonyms: buttonhole, approach, confront
Antonyms: evade, avoid, shun |
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(adj) Desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager
Synonyms: keen, enthusiastic, grasping
Antonyms: reluctant, indifferent, unenthusiastic |
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(adj) Having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink
Synonyms: briny, saline
Antonyms: fresh, clear, sweet |
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(n) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action
Synonyms: Promptness, alacrity, speed
Antonyms: Slowness, sluggishness, dilatoriness |
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(adj) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty of underhanded way
Synonyms: roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful
Antonyms: direct, straightforward, open, aboveboard |
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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
Synonyms: ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver |
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(n) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj) calm, peaceful, happy, golden, prosperous, affluent
Synonyms: tranquil, serene, placid, palmy
Antonyms: turbulent, chaotic, tumultuous |
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(adj) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic
Synonyms: affected, stagy
Antonyms: low-keyed, muted, untheatrical, subdued |
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(adj) deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to sir up strife of rebellion; (n) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife
Synonyms: inflammatory, provocative, firebrand
Antonyms: soothing, quieting, peacemaker |
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(n) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction
Synonyms: vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult |
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(adj) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment
Synonym: shortsighted
Antonym: farsighted |
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(adj) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized
Synonyms: clear, obvious, manifest, patent
Antonyms: secret, clandestine, covert, concealed |
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(adj) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling
Antonyms: complimentary, ameliorative |
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(n) the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable
Synonyms: fitness, correctness, decorum
Antonyms: unseemliness, inappropriateness |
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(n) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred
Synonyms: desecration, profanation, defilement |
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(adv) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely
Synonyms: promptly, peremptorily, abruptly |
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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
Synonyms: ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall |
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