Beyond The Hit Parade Group 2

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to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid (verb)

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abjure

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to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow (verb)

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adumbrate

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a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious0 curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing (noun)

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anathema

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soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts (adj/noun)

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anodyne

Front 5

farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith (noun)

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apogee

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one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions (noun)

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apostate

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deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection (noun)

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apotheosis

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severity, rigor; roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability (noun)

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asperity

Front 9

to aver, allege, assert (verb)

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asserverate

Front 10

diligent, hard-working, sedulous (adj)

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bellicose

Front 11

omen, portent (noun)

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augury

Front 12

to slander, make a false accusation (verb)

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calumniate (calumny means slander, aspersion)

Front 13

disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument (adj)

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captious

Front 14

to find fault without good reason (verb)

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cavil

Front 15

speed, alacrity (noun)

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celerity (think accelerate)

Front 16

an illusion, originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster (noun)

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chimera

Front 17

insubordinate, rebellious (adj)

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contumacious (contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion)

Front 18

tout, fiasco, compete failure (noun)

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debacle (my first attempt at a souffle was a total debacle)

Front 19

an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot (noun)

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denouement

Front 20

to discriminate or discern (verb)

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descry

Front 21

disuse (noun)

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desuetude (after years of desuetude, my French skills were finally put to use)

Front 22

random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose (adj)

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desultory (her desultory performance impressed no one)

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transparent, gauzy (adj)

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diaphanous

Front 24

reserved, shy, unassuming, lacking in self-confidence (adj)

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diffident

Front 25

a song of grief or lamentation (noun)

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dirge

Front 26

glwoing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy (noun)

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encomium

Front 27

to shun or avoid (verb)

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eschew

Front 28

to censure scathingly, to upbraid (verb)

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excoriate

Front 29

denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil (verb)

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execrate

Front 30

critical examination, explication (noun)

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exegesis

Front 31

to atone or make amends for (verb)

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expiate

Front 32

to destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind (verb)

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extirpate

Front 33

silly, inanely follish (adj)

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fatuous

Front 34

quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable (adj)

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fractious

Front 35

to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose (verb)

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gainsay

Front 36

unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic (adj)

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heterodox

Front 37

difficult or embarrassing situation (noun)

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imbroglio

Front 38

not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged (adj)

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indefatigable

Front 39

certain, inevitable (adj)

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ineluctable

Front 40

one of a kind, peerless (adj)

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inimitable

Front 41

unconcerned, carefree, heedless (adj)

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insouciant

Front 42

deep rooted, ingrained, habitual (adj)

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inveterate

Front 43

vapid, uninteresting, nugatory, childish, immature, puerile (adj)

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jejune

Front 44

lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery (adj)

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lubricious

Front 45

a beggar, supplicant (noun)

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mendicant

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cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy, attracting by false show (adj)

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meretricious

Front 47

menacing, threatening (adj)

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minatory (think Minotaur)

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low point, perigee (noun)

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nadir

Front 49

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

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nonplussed

Front 50

noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous (adj)

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obstreperous

Front 51

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

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ossified

Front 52

to make something seem less serious; to gloss over, to make less severe or intense (verb)

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palliate

Front 53

formal praise, eulogy, encomium (noun)

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panegyric (panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise)

Front 54

cheap, miserly (adj)

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parsimonious

Front 55

transparent, easy to understand, limpid (adj)

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pellucid

Front 56

the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech (noun)

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peroration

Front 57

pounding, thundering, resounding (adj)

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plangent

Front 58

long-winded, verbose (adj)

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prolix (prolixity means verbosity)

Front 59

childish, immature, jejune, neguatory (adj)

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puerile

Front 60

power, strength (noun)

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puissance (puissant means powerful, strong)

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cowardly, craven (adj)

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pusillanimous

Front 62

to protest, object (verb)

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remonstrate

Front 63

having sound judgment; perceptive; wise; like a sage (adj)

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sagacious

Front 64

lustful, lascivious, bawdy (adj)

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salacious

Front 65

remedial, wholesome, causing improvement (adj)

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salutary

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cheerful, confident, optimistic (adj)

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sanguine

Front 67

gloomy, dark, sullen, morose (adj)

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saturnine

Front 68

aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively (adj)

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sententious

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extremely loud and powerful (adj)

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stentorian

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gloomy, dark (adj)

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stygian

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toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite (noun)

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sycophant

Front 72

biased; showing marked tendencies (adj)

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tendentious

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timid, fearful, diffident (adj)

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timorous

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novice, greenhorn, rank amateur (noun)

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tyro

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to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective (verb)

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vitiate

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fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language (adj)

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voluble