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Accost
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(buttonhole, approach, confront)
(evade, avoid, shun)
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Animadversion
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(rebuke, reproof)
(praise, compliment)
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Avid
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(keen, enthusiastic, grasping)
(reluctant, indifferent, unenthusiastic)
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Brackish
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(briny, saline)
(fresh, clear, sweet)
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Celerity
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(promptness, alacrity, speed)
(dilatoriness, slowness, sluggishness)
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Devious
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(roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful)
(direct, straightforward, open, aboveboard)
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Gambit
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(ploy, straighten, ruse, maneuver)
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Halcyon
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(tranquil, serene, placid, palmy)
(turbulent, chaotic, tumultous)
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Histrionic
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(affected, stagy)
(low-keyed, muted, untheatrical, subdued)
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Incendiary
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(inflammatory, provocative)
(soothing, quieting)
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Maelstrom
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(vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult)
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Myopic
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(shortsighted)
(farsighted)
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Overt
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(clear, obvious, manifest, patent)
(secret, clandestine, covert, concealed)
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Pejorative
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(ant.- complimentary, ameliorative)
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Propriety
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(fitness, correctness, decorum)
(unseemliness, inappropriatness)
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