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(v.) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way
SYNONYMS: buttonhole, approach, confront |
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animadversion
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(n.) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval
SYNONYMS: rebuke, reproof |
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(adj.) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager
SYNONYMS: keen, enthusiastic, grasping |
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(adj.) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink
SYNONYMS: briny, saline |
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(n.) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action
SYNONYMS: promptness, alacrity, speed |
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(adj.) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way
SYNONYMS: roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful |
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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.) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent
SYNONYMS: (adj.) tranquil, serene, placid, palmy |
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(adj.) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic
SYNONYMS: affected, stagy |
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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
SYNONYMS: (adj.) inflammatory, provocative, (n.) firebrand |
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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
SYNONYMS: shortsighted |
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(adj.) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized
SYNONYMS: clear, obvious, manifest, patent |
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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
SYNONYMS: fitness, correctness, decorum |
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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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