All 4 Uses of
accost
in
Interview with the Vampire
- And clapping rose for the luminous countenance, the gleaming cheekbones, the winking black eye, as if it were all masterful illusion when in fact it was merely and certainly the face of a vampire, the vampire who had accosted me in the Latin Quarter, that leering, grinning vampire, harshly illuminated by the yellow spot.†
Part 3accosted = approached and spoke in a demanding or challenging manner
- The voices of the others rose again, affected party voices, as they conferred with one another on the night's kills, describing this or that encounter without a smattering of emotion, challenges to cruelty erupting from time to time like flashes of white lightning: a tall, thin vampire being accosted in one corner for a needless romanticizing of mortal life, a lack of spirit, a refusal to do the most entertaining thing at the moment it was available to him.†
Part 3
- What mattered was that they let me through, and I passed them and the few vampires in the ballroom, unaccosted, to stand at last at Armand's open door.†
Part 3unaccosted = not approached in a demanding or challenging mannerstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unaccosted means not and reverses the meaning of accosted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- That vampire who was Lestat's latest child accosted me one evening not long after.†
Part 4 *accosted = approached and spoke in a demanding or challenging manner
Definition:
to approach aggressively or inappropriately