Beyond The Hit Parade Group 2

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abjure

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to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

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adumbrate

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to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

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anathema

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a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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anodyne

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soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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apogee

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farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

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apostate

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one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

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apotheosis

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deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection

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asperity

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severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability

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asseverate

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to aver, allege, or assert

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assiduous

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diligent, hard-working, sedulous

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augury

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omen, portent

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bellicose

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belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

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calumniate

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to slander, to make a false accusation; {calumny means slander, aspersion}

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captious

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disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

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cavil

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to find fault without good reason

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celerity

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speed, alacrity; {think accelerate}

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chimera

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an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

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contumacious

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insubordinate, rebellious; {contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion}

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debacle

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rout, fiasco, complete failure

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denounement

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an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

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descry

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to discriminte or discern

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desuetude

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disuse

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desultory

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random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

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diaphanous

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transparent, gauzy

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diffident

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reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence

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dirge

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a song of grief or lamentation

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encomium

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glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

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eschew

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to shun or avoid

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excoriate

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to censure scathingly, to upbraid

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execrate

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to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil

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exegesis

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critical examination, explication

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expiate

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to atone or make amends for

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extirpate

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to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind

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fatuous

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silly, inanely foolish

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fractious

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quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

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gainsay

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to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose

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heterodox

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unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

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imbroglio

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difficult or embarrassing situation

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indefatigable

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not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged

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ineluctable

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certain, inevitable

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inimitable

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one of a kind, peerless

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insouciant

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unconcerned, carefree, heedless

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inveterate

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deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

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jejune

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vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile

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lubricious

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lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

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mendicant

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a beggar, supplicant

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meretricious

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cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show

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minatory

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menacing, threatening (reminds you of the Minotaur, a threatening creature indeed)

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nadir

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low point, perigee

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nonplussed

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baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

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obstreperous

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noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

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ossified

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tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone

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palliate

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to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense

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panegyric

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formal praise, eulogy, encomium; {panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise}

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parsimonious

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cheap, miserly

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pellucid

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transparent, easy to understand, limpid

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peroration

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the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

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plangent

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pounding, thundering, resounding

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prolix

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long-winded, verbose; {prolixity means verbosity

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propitiate

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to appease; to conciliate; {propitious means auspicious, favorable}

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puerile

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childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

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puissance

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power, strength; {puissant means powerful, strong}

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pusillanimous

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cowardly, craven

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remonstrate

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to protest, to object

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sagacious

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having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage

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salacious

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lustful, lascivious, bawdy

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salutary

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remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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sanguine

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cheerful, confident, optimistic

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saturnine

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gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

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sententious

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aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively

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stentorian

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extremely loud and powerful

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stygian

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gloomy, dark

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sycophant

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toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite

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tendentious

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biased; showing marked tendencies

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timorous

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timid, fearful, diffident

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tyro

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novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

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vitiate

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to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective

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voluble

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fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language