"120 Words..." (11th) List 1

approach and speak to someone aggressively or insistently

• accost

• censure

• digress

• elicit

uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow

• austere

• superfluous

• ambivalent

• plaintive

severely simple

• compulsory

• flagrant

• austere

• didactic

the attribute of being short or fleeting

• plaintive

• brevity

• flagrant

• austere

harsh criticism or disapproval

• accost

• satiate

• censure

• elicit

required by rule

• compulsory

• laudable

• flagrant

• didactic

instructive, especially excessively

• flippant

• didactic

• superfluous

• laudable

turn aside from the main subject of attention

• elicit

• satiate

• digress

• accost

call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response

• satiate

• elicit

• censure

• accost

a dissenting clique

• mortification

• inflection

• prerogative

• faction