Vocabulary Workshop Unit Two

a verbal attack

• avid
• accost
• devious
• gambit

an opening move

• halcyon
• histrionic
• gambit
• brackish

capable of catching fire

• maelstrom
• halcyon
• incendiary
• avid

a rapid rate of speed

• brackish
• celerity
• myopic
• overt

open; not secret or hidden

• halcyon
• animadversion
• pejorative
• overt

blasphemous behavior (behavior that goes against the church's teaching)

• talisman
• histrionic
• sacrilege
• suppliant

deviating from a straight course; sly or tricky

• devious
• avid
• gambit
• incendiary

expressing disapproval

• myopic
• devious
• pejorative
• avid

the "good old days"

• halcyon
• accost
• gambit
• propriety

right away

• pejorative
• talisman
• summarily
• brackish