Gre Beyond The Hit Parade Group 2

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abjure

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

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adumbrate

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

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anathema

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

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anodyne

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

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apogee

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(n) farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

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apostate

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

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apotheosis

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

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asperity

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

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asseverate

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(v) to aver, allege, assert

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assiduous

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(adj) diligent, hard-working, sedulous

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augury

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(n) omen, portent

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bellicose

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(adj) belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

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calumniate

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(v) to slander, make a false accusation; calumny means slander, aspersion

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captious

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

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cavil

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(v) to find fault without good reason

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celerity

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(n) speed, alacrity; think accelerate

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chimera

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(n) an illusion

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contumacious

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(adj) insubordinate, rebellious; contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion

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debacle

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(n) rout, fiasco, complete failure

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denouement

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

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descry

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(v) to discriminate or discern

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desuetude

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(n) disuse: "After years of desuetude, my French skills were finally put to use."

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desultory

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(adj) random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose: "Her desultory performance impressed no one."

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diaphanous

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(adj) transparent, gauzy

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diffident

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

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dirge

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(n) a song of grief or lamentation

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encomium

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(n) glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

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eschew

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(v) to shun or avoid

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excoriate

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(v) to censure scathingly, to upbraid

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execrate

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

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exegesis

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(n) critical examination, explication

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expiate

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(v) to atone or make amends for

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extirpate

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

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fatuous (adj)

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silly, inanely foolish

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fractious

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

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gainsay

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(v) to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose

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heterodox

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(adj) unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

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imbroglio

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(n) difficult or embarrassing situation

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indefatigable

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(adj) not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged

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ineluctable

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(adj) certain, inevitable

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inimitable

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(adj) one of a kind, peerless

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insouciant

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(adj) unconcerned, carefree, heedless

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inveterate

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(adj) deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

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jejune

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

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lubricious

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(adj) lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

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mendicant

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(n) a beggar, supplicant

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meretricious

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

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minatory

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

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nadir

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(n) low point, perigee

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nonplussed

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

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obstreperous

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(adj) noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

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ossified

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

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palliate

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

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panegyric

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(n) formal praise, eulogy, encomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise

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parsimonious

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(adj) cheap, miserly

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pellucid

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(adj) transparent, easy to understand, limpid

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peroration

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

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plangent

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(adj) pounding, thundering, resounding

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prolix

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(adj) long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbosity

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propitiate

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(v) to appease; to conciliate; propitious means auspicious, favorable

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puerile

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(adj) childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

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puissance

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(n) power, strength; puissant means powerful, strong

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pusillanimous

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(adj) cowardly, craven

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remonstrate

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(v) to protest, object

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sagacious

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

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salacious

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(adj) lustful, lascivious, bawdy

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salutary

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(adj) remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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sanguine

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(adj) cheerful, confident, optimistic

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saturnine

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(adj) gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

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sententious

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

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stentorian

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(adj) extremely loud and powerful

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stygian

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(adj) gloomy, dark

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sycophant

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

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tendentious

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(adj) biased; showing marked tendencies

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timorous

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(adj) timid, fearful, diffident

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tyro

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(n) novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

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vitiate

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

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voluble

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