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| To apporach and speak to first, buttonhole |
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| a comment indicating strong criticism |
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| desirous of something to the point of greed, intensely eager, keen |
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| having a salty taste, briny, saline |
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| swiftness, rapidity of mothion, promptness |
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| straying or wandering from a straight or direct course, roundabout, indirect |
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| ply, in chess an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece to gain later adcantage |
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| a legendary bird indentified with the kingfisher, calm, peaceful, happy, serene |
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| pertaining to actors and their techniques, affected |
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| deliberately steeing or causing fires, one who sets fires, provocative |
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| a whirlpool of great size and violence, vortex |
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| nearsighted, shortsighted |
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| tending to make worse, expressing disapproval or disparagement |
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| the state of being proper, fitness, correctness |
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| improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred |
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| asking humbly and earnestly, one who make a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner |
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| an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish |
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| to move in waves or with a wavelike motion, ripple, fluctuate |
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