MIX
SYN: CHAOS
MAELSTROM
the INAPPROPRIATENESS of her outfit
PROPRIETY
a disturbing DESECRATION
SACRILEGE
HE DEVELOPED A _____ PLAN TO TRICK THE MURDERER INTO REVEALING HIS GUILT.
DEVIOUS
IT USED TO BE COMMON FOR HIGHWAY MEN TO ___ TRAVELERS, DEMANDING MONEY.
ACCOST
ANT: CONCEALED
OVERT
RELUCTANT jogger
AVID
PETITIONERS pleading their case
THE COURT _____ DISMISSED THE CASE AS NOT HAVING MERIT.
SUMMARILY
THE POLICE STUMBLED ACROSS A CACHE OF _____ DEVICES AT THE ARSON SUSPECT'S HOME.
INCENDIARY
I WATCHED A SNAKE _____ THROUGH THE TALL GRASS.
UNDULATE
SUBDUED speaker
HISTRIONIC
collection of AMULETS
TALISMANS
I SPENT TIME TRYING TO THINK OF A CLEVER ____ WITH WHICH TO INTRODUCE MYSELF TO THE HANDSOME STRANGER.
GAMBIT
THE CRITIC PUBLISHED HIS _____ IN A STINGING REVIEW.
ANIMADVERSION
THROUGHOUT HISTORY, THE PYRAMID SHAPE WAS BEEN VIEWED BY MANY AS A _____ OF GREAT POWER.
TALISMAN
CLEAR solution
BRACKISH
ceased to FLUCTUATE
UNDULATE
CONTESTANTS MUST ANSWER WITH ___ AS WELL AS ACCURACY.
CELERITY
MYOPIC
_____ IS TO ACTING AS
CHOREOGRAPHIC IS TO DANCING
HISTRIONIC
TURBULENT weather
HALCYON
BELITTLING in tone
PEJORATIVE
IT IS EASIER TO RESPOND TO A(N) _____ INSULT THAN A SLY JAB.
OVERT
POE'S STORY "DESCENT INTO THE _____" TELLS OF A SHIPWRECKED SAILOR.
MAELSTROM