Beyond The Hit Parade Group 1

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alloy

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

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appropriate

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verb
to take for one's own use, confiscate

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arrest, arresting

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

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august

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adj.
majestic, venerable

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bent

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noun
leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency: He had a naturally artistic bent

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broach

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verb
bring up, announce, begin to talk about

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brook

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verb
to tolerate, endure, countenance

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cardinal

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adj.
major, as in cardinal sin

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chauvinist

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noun
a blindly devoted patriot

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color

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verb
to change as if by dyeing, i.r., to distort, gloss or affect (usually the first): Yellow journalism colored the truth

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consequential

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adj.
pompues, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following; important)

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damp

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verb
to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound

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die

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

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essay

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verb
to test or try; attempt, experiment: the newly born fawn essayed a few wobbly steps

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exact

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verb
to demand, call for, require, take: Even a victorious war exacts a heavy price

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fell

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verb
to cause to fall by striking: The lumberjacks arrived and felled many trees

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fell

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adj.
inhumanly cruel: Fell beasts surrounded the explorers

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flag

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verb
to sag or droop, to become spliritless, to decline: Think of a flag on a windless day, as in her flagging spirits

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flip

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adj.
sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark

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ford

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verb
to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

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grouse

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verb
to complain or grumble

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guy

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noun/verb
a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforece using a guy: Think guide

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intimate

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verb
to imply, suggest, or insinuate: Are you intimating that I cannot be trusted?

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list

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verb
to tilt or lean to one side: The ship's broken mast listed helplessly in the wind

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lumber

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verb
to move havily and clumsily: Lumbering giants on land, walruses are actually graceful swimmers

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meet

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adj.
fitting, proper: It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the Baseball hall of fame

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milk

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verb
to exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of: I milked the position for all it was worth

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mince

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verb
pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully: Don't mince words. Also, to take into tiny steps, tiptoe

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nice

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adj.
exacting, fastidious, extremely precise: He made a nice distinction between the two cases

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obtain

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adj.
to be established, accepted, or customary: Those standards no longer obtain

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occult

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adj.
hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

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pedestrian

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adj.
commonplace, trite, inremarkable, quotidian

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pied

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adj.
multicolored, usually in blotches: The Pied Piper or Hamlin was so called because of his multicolored coat

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pine

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verb
to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn

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plastic

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adj.
moldable, pliable, not rigid

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pluck

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noun
courage, spunk, fortitude: Churchill's speeches inspired the pluck of his countrymen during the war

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prize

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verb
to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils: The information was prized from him

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rail

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verb
to complain about bitterly: Early American prograssives railed agains the railroad barons

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rent

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ver/noun
torn, past of rend: He rent his garments; an opening or tear caused by such: a large rent in the fabric

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quail

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verb
to lose courage, turn frightened

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qualify

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verb
to limit: Let me qualify that statement

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sap

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verb
to enarvate or weaken the vitality of: That race sapped my strength

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sap

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noun
a fool or nitwit: Don't be a sap!

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scurvy

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adj.
contemptible, despicable: He was a scurvy old reprobate

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singular

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adj.
exceptional, unusual, odd: He was singularly well-suited for the job

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stand

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noun
a group of trees

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steep

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verb
to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep: She was steeped in esoteric knowledge

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strut

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noun
the supporting structural cross-part of a wing

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table

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verb
to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration: They tabled the motion and will consider it again later

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tender

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verb
a proffer or offer: He tendered his resignation

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waffle

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verb
to equivocate; to change one's position: His detractors say that the President waffles too much; he can never make up his mind

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wag

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noun
wit, joker: Groucho Marx was a well-known wag