Beyond The Hit Parade Group 1

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alloy

Back 1

to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; {unalloyed means pure}

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appropriate

Back 2

to take for one's own use; to confiscate

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arrest, arresting

Back 3

to suspend; to engage; holding one's attention: as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait

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august

Back 4

majestic, venerable

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bent

Back 5

leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

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broach

Back 6

to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about

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brook

Back 7

to tolerate; to endure; to countenance

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cardinal

Back 8

major, as in cardinal sin

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chauvinist

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a blindly devoted patriot

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color

Back 10

to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort gloss, or affect (usually the first)

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consequential

Back 11

pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following; important)

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damp

Back 12

to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound

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die

Back 13

a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop

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essay

Back 14

to test or try; to attempt; to experiment

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exact

Back 15

to demand; to call for; to require; to take

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fell (verb)

Back 16

to cause to fall by striking

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fell (adj.)

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inhumanly cruel

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flag

Back 18

to sag or droop; to becomes spiritless; to decline

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flip

Back 19

sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark

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ford

Back 20

to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

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grouse

Back 21

to complain or grumble

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guy

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a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: {think guide}

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intimate

Back 23

to imply, suggest, or insinuate

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list

Back 24

to tilt or lean to one side

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lumber

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to move heavily and clumsily

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meet

Back 26

fitting, proper

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milk

Back 27

to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of

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mince

Back 28

to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize to speak too carefully. also to take tiny steps; to tiptoe

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nice

Back 29

exacting, fastidious, extremely precise

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obtain

Back 30

to be established , accepted, or customary

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occult

Back 31

hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

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pedestrian

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commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian

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pied

Back 33

mulicolored, usually in blotches

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pine

Back 34

to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn

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plastic

Back 35

moldable, pliable, not rigid

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pluck

Back 36

courage, spunk, fortitude

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prize

Back 37

to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils

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rail

Back 38

to complain about bitterly

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rent

Back 39

torn (past tense of {rend}); an opening or tear caused by such

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quail

Back 40

to lose courage; to turn frightened

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qualify

Back 41

to limit

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sap (verb)

Back 42

to enervate or weaken the vitality of

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sap (noun)

Back 43

a fool or nitwit

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scurvy

Back 44

contemptible, despicable

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singular

Back 45

exceptional, unusual, odd

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stand

Back 46

a group of trees

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steep

Back 47

to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep

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strut

Back 48

the supporting structural corss-part of a wing

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table

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to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration

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tender

Back 50

to proffer or offer

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waffle

Back 51

to equivocate; to change one's position

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wag

Back 52

wit, joker