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| (v.) to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive 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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| keen, enthusiastic, grasping |
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| reluctant, indifferent, unenthusiastic |
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| (adj.) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
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| (n.) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
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| promptness, alacrity, speed |
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| slowness, sluggishness, dilatoriness |
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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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| roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| (adj.) tranquil, serene, placid, palmy |
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| (adj) turbulent, chaotic, tumultuous |
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| (adj.) pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic |
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| low-keyed, muted, untheatrical,subdued |
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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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| (adj.) inflammatory, provocative, (n.) firebrand |
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| (adj) soothing, quieting, (n) peacemaker |
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| (n.) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction |
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| vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult |
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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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| secret, clandestine, covert, concealed |
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| adj.) tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling |
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| complimentary, ameliorate |
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| (n.) the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl.) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |
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| fitness, correctness, decorum |
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| unseemliness, inappropriateness |
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| (n.) improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
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| desecration, profanation, defilement |
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| (adv.) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely |
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| 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 |
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| ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall |
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