Beyond The Hit Parade Groups 1 And 2

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alloy v.

Back 1

to debase by mixing with something inferior

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appropriate v.

Back 2

to take for one's own use

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arrest v.

Back 3

to engage, holding's someone attention

. to catch and hold; attract and fix; engage: The loud noise arrested our attention.

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august adj.

Back 4

majestic, venerable

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bent n.

Back 5

leaning

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broach v.

Back 6

bring up, announce, begin to talk about

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brook v.

Back 7

to tolerate, endure

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cardinal adj.

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major

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chauvinist n.

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1. zealous and aggressive patriotism or blind enthusiasm for military glory.

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consequential adj.

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# Following as an effect, result, or conclusion; consequent.
# Having important consequences; significant: "The year's only really consequential legislation was the reform of Social Security" (New York Times).
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1. Important; influential: a consequential figure in the academic community.

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damp v.

Back 11

"check to vibration of sound,

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die n.

Back 12

a tool for shaping

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essay v.

Back 13

to test or try

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exact v.

Back 14

to demand, call for, require

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fell v.

Back 15

to cause to fall by striking

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fell adj

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–adjective
1. fierce; cruel; dreadful; savage.
2. destructive; deadly: fell poison; fell disease.

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flag v.

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to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline

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flip adj.

Back 18

sarcastic

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ford v.

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to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

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grouse v.

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to complain

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guy n./v.

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a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide.

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intimate v.

Back 22

to imply, suggest

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list v.

Back 23

to tilt or clean to one side

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lumber v.

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to move heavily and clumsily

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meet adj.

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adj. Fitting; proper:

"It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place" (Shakespeare).

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milk v.

Back 26

to exploit, to squeeze

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mince v.

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pronouce or speak affectedly, to take tiny steps

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nice adj.

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exacting, fastidious, extremely precise

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obtain adj.

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to be established, accepted

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occult adj.

Back 30

hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

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pedestrian adj.

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commonplace, unremarkable

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pied adj.

Back 32

multicolored

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pine v.

Back 33

2. To wither or waste away from longing or grief: pined away and died.

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plastic adj.

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moldable, pliable, not rigid

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pluck n.

Back 35

"courage, spunk, fortitude

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prize v.

Back 36

To move or force with or as if with a lever; pry.

n.

1. Leverage.
2. Chiefly Southern U.S. Something used as a lever or for prying.

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rail v.

Back 37

"to complain about bitterly.

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rent v.

Back 38

"torn, past of rend

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quail v.

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to lose courage, turn frightened.

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qualify v.

Back 40

to limit

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sap v.

Back 41

"to enervate

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sap n.

Back 42

a fool or nitwit

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scurvy adj.

Back 43

comtemptible

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singular adj.

Back 44

1. extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional: a singular success.
2. unusual or strange; odd; different: singular behavior.
3. being the only one of its kind; distinctive; unique: a singular example.

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stand n.

Back 45

a group of trees

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steep v.

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

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strut n.

Back 47

the supporting structral cross- part of a wing

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table v.

Back 48

to remove from consideration. They tabled the motion an will consider it again later.

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tender v.

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"to proffer or offer.

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waffle v.

Back 50

to equivocate

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wag n.

Back 51

. a person given to droll, roguish, or mischievous humor; wit.

a joker

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abjure v.

Back 52

to renounce or reject solemnly

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adumbrate v.

Back 53

to foreshadow vaguely or intimate

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anathema n.

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a solemn or religious curse

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anodyne adj./n.

Back 55

soothing, comfort

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apogee n.

Back 56

farthest or highest point

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apostate n.

Back 57

one who abandons long held religious or political convictions

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apotheosis n.

Back 58

a model of excellence or perfection

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asperity n.

Back 59

severity, rigor.

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asseverate v.

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To affirm or declare positively or earnestly.

But of course it is! asseverates Herman Woodlife.

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assiduous v.

Back 61

diligent, hard-working

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augury n.

Back 62

omen, portent

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bellicose adj.

Back 63

warlike

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calumniate v.

Back 64

to slander, make a false accusation

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captious adj.

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1. Marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults: a captious scholar.
2. Intended to entrap or confuse, as in an argument: a captious question.

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cavil v.

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1. to raise irritating and trivial objections; find fault with unnecessarily (usually fol. by at or about): He finds something to cavil at in everything I say.
–verb (used with object)

2. to oppose by inconsequential, frivolous, or sham objections: to cavil each item of a proposed agenda.

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celerity n.

Back 67

speed, alacrity

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chimera n.

Back 68

an illusion

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contumacious adj.

Back 69

insubordinate, rebellious, scorn

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debacle n.

Back 70

compete failure

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descry v.

Back 71

to discriminate

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desuetude n.

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The cessation of use; discontinuance of practice or custom; disuse.

Probably only one in a hundred girls who give birth clandestinely even knows that an edict of King Henry II, now fallen into desuetude, once made their action punishable by death.

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desultory adj.

Back 73

random, aimless

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different adj.

Back 74

reserved, lacking self confident

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dirge n.

Back 75

a song of grief

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encomium n.

Back 76

glowing nad enthusiastic praise

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eschew v.

Back 77

"to shun or avoid.

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excoriate v.

Back 78

declare to be evil

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exegesis n.

Back 79

critical examination, explication.

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expiate v.

Back 80

"to atone or make amends for

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extirpate v.

Back 81

to destroy, cut out

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fatuous adj.

Back 82

silly

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fractious adj.

Back 83

rebellious, irritable

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gainsay v.

Back 84

to deny, dispute

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heterodox adj.

Back 85

iconoclastic

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imbroglio n.

Back 86

difficult or embarrassing situation.

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indefatigable adj.

Back 87

not easily exhaustible, tireless

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ineluctable adj.

Back 88

certain, inevitable

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inimitable adj.

Back 89

peerless

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insouciant adj.

Back 90

carefree, unconcerned

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inveterate adj.

Back 91

deep rooted, babitual

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jejune adj.

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1. Not interesting; dull: "and there pour forth jejune words and useless empty phrases" (Anthony Trollope).
2. Lacking maturity; childish: surprised by their jejune responses to our problems.
3. Lacking in nutrition: a jejune diet.

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lubricious adj.

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"slimy"

1. having a smooth or slippery quality; "the skin of cephalopods is thin and lubricious"
2. characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer";

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mendicant n.

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a beggar

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meretricious adj.

Back 95

cheap, showy

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minatory adj.

Back 96

threatening

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nadir n.

Back 97

low point, perigee

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nonplussed adj.

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bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

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obstreperous adj.

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noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

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ossified adj.

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tending to become more rigid, conventional, turned into bone

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palliate v.

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to make s.th seem less serious

I had held a hope that she would take my class, that I would have the chance not only to cope with but to help palliate her pain.

He was widely praised in both East and West as a humanitarian seeking to palliate the excesses of a cruel regime.

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panegyric n.

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formal praise, eulogy

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parsimonious adj.

Back 103

"cheap, miserly

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pellucid adj.

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transparent, easy to understand, limpid

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peroration n.

Back 105

the concluding part of a speech.

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plangent adj.

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1. Loud and resounding with a plaintive sound: plangent bells.
2. Expressing or suggesting sadness; plaintive: "From a doorway came the plangent sounds of a guitar" (Malcolm Lowry).

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prolix adj.

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verbose

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propitiate

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appease

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puerile adj.

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childish, immature

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puissance n.

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power, strength

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pusillanimous adj.

Back 111

cowardly

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remonstrate v.

Back 112

protest, object

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sagacious adj.

Back 113

having sound judgement, perceptive

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salacious adj.

Back 114

lustful

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salutary adj.

Back 115

remedial, causing improvement

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sanguine adj.

Back 116

cheerful, confident, optimistic

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saturnine adj.

Back 117

gloomy, dark, sullen

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sententious adj.

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adjective
1. abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims: a sententious book.
2. given to excessive moralizing; self-righteous.
3. given to or using pithy sayings or maxims: a sententious poet.
4. of the nature of a maxim; pithy.

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stentorian adj.

Back 119

extremely loud and powerful

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stygian adj.

Back 120

gloomy, dark.

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sycophant n.

Back 121

self seeking flattered

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tendentious adj.

Back 122

biased, showing marked tendency

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timorous adj.

Back 123

timid, fearful

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tyro n

Back 124

novice

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vitiate v.

Back 125

corrupt, spoil

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voluble adj.

Back 126

fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language