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Accost

Accost. verb To approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way Synonyms: buttonhole, approach, confront Antonyms: evade, avoid, shun. Luke Walter. Animadversion. (n) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval Shows dissapproval. Avid.

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  1. Accost verb To approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way Synonyms: buttonhole, approach, confront Antonyms: evade, avoid, shun

  2. Luke Walter Animadversion (n) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval Shows dissapproval

  3. Avid (adj.) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager Synonyms: keen, enthusiastic, grasping

  4. BRACKISH (adj.) Having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink Synonyms: briny, saline Antonyms: fresh, clear, sweet Luke Utley 1st Period

  5. Devious- (adj.) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way Mollie Williams p.2 http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/c/clauses.asp

  6. Gambit (Noun) 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.

  7. HALCYON (n.) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj.) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent

  8. Piper Weinkauf Cubeta - 3 histrionic (adj.) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic

  9. Matthew Milburn Period 3 Maelstrom (n.) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction http://uvs-model.com/pictures/whirlpool.jpg

  10. Overt(adj.) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized Jack Deichert K. Cubeta- 8th

  11. Propriety (n.) the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl.) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable Synonyms: fitness, correctness, decorum Antonyms: unseemliness; inappropriateness

  12. Sacrilege (noun) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred.

  13. Summarily (adv.) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely Synonyms: Promptly, peremptorily, abruptly

  14. Suppliant (adj.) asking humbly and earnestly; (n.) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor

  15. Undulate (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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