(v) to approach and speak to first;to confront in a challenging or agressive way

syn: buttonhole, approach, confront

 ant: evade, avoid, shun

(n) a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval

syn: rebuke, reproof

ant: praise, complement

(adj) deirous of something to the point of greed; intensly eager

syn: keen, enthusiastic, grasping

ant: reluctant, indifferent, unenthusiastic

(adj) having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink

syn: briny, salty

ant: fresh, clear, sweet

(n) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action

 syn: promptness, alacrity, speed

ant: slowness, sluggishness, dilartoriness

(adj) straying or wandering from a straight direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way

syn: roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly

ant: direct, straightforward, open, aboveboard

(n)in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type

syn: ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver

(n) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher (adj) of or relating to the halcyon, calm, peaceful, happy, golden; prosper, affluent

syn: tranquil, serene, placid, palmy

ant: turbulent, chaotic, tumultuous

(adj) pertaining to actors and their techniques, theatrical, artifical, melodramatic

syn: affected, stagy ant: low-keyed, muted, untheatrical, subduded

(adj) deliberately setting or causing fires (n) one who deliberatly starts fires

syn: inflammatory, firebrand ant: soothing, quiet, peacemaker

(n) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction

syn: vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult

(adj) nearsighted, lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation, lacking foresight

syn: shortsighted

ant: farsighted

(adj) open, not hidden, revealed in a way that is easily recognized

syn: clear, obvious, manifest, patent

ant: secret, clandestine, covert, concealed

(adj) tending to make worse, expressing disapproval

ant: complimentary, ameliorative

(n) the state od being proper (pl) standards of what is proper

syn: fitness, correctness, decorum

ant: unseemliness, inappropriateness

(n) improper or disrespectful treatment to something held sacred

syn: desecration, profanation, defilement

(adv) withouut delay or formaility; breifly, concisely

syn: promptly, peremptorily, abruptly

(v) to move in waves or with a wavelike motion, to have a wavelike apperance or form

syn: ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall