Getting Up to Speed

Precipitate

• Gradual

• Inert

• Rash, hasty

Torpid

• Sluggish

• Streamlined

• Explosive

Drogue

• Open speedboat

• Booster rocket

• Canvas parachute to slow a ship or plane

Tardigrade

• Restrained

• Rushed

• Slow in pace

Velodrome

• Nuclear accelerator

• Track for cylcing

• Air Speed Recorder

Paso Doble

• A quick march played at bullfights

• Shooting star

• Time-lapse motion

Dispatch

• Promptness or efficiency

• Postponement

• Impass

Baud

• Unit of film speed

• Unit of data transmission

• Unit of nautical speed

Hang fire

• Delay

• Blast off

• Streak across the sky

Alacrity

• Ignition

• Cheerful readiness

• Pause before firing