Hit Parade 1

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abscond

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to depart clandestinely, to steal off and hide

Verb

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aberrant

Back 2

deviating from the norm

Noun

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alacrity

Back 3

eager and enthusiastic willingness

Noun

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anomaly

Back 4

deviation from the normal order, form or rule. Abnormality

Adj

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approbation

Back 5

an expression of approval or praise

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arduous

Back 6

strenuous, taxing reuiring significant effort

Adj

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assuage

Back 7

to ease or lessen, to appease or pacify

Verb

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audacious

Back 8

daring and fearless, recklessly bold

Adj

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austere

Back 9

without adornment, bare, severly simple, ascetic

Adj

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axiomatic

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taken as a given, possesing self evident truth

Adj

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canonical

Back 11

Following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards

Adj

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capricious

Back 12

inclined to change ones mind impulsively, erratic, unpridictable

Adj

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Censure

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to critisize severly; to officially rebuke

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chicanery

Back 14

trickery, or subterfuge

Noun

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connoisseur

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an informed and astute judge in matters of taste, expert

Noun

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Convoluted

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complex or complicated

Adj

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disabuse

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to undecieve, set right

verb

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discordant

Back 18

conflicting, dissonant orharsh in sound

Adj

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disparate

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fundamentally distinct or dissimilar

Adj

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effrontery

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extreme boldness, presumptuous


Noun

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eloquent

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well spoken, expressive

Adj

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enervate

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To weaken, to reduce in vitality

Verb

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ennui

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dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apthy

Noun

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equivocate

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to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent

Verb

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erudite

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very learned, scholerly

Adj

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exculpate

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exonerate to clear of blame

verb

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exigent

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urgent, pressing, requiring immediate action or attention

adj

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extemporaneous

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improvised, done without preparation

Adj

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filibuster

Back 29

intentional obstruction, using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action

Noun

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fulminate

Back 30

to loudly attack or denounce

Verb

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ingenuous

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artless, frank and candid, lacking in sophistication

Adj

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inured

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accustomed to accepting something undesirable

Adj

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irascible

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easily angered prone to tempermental outbursts

Adj

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laud

Back 34

to praise highly

Verb

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lucid

Back 35

clear, easily understood

Adj

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magnanimity

Back 36

the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart esp in being forgiving

Noun

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martial

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associated with war and armed services

Adj

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mundane

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of the world, typically of or concerned with the ordinary

Adj

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nascent

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coming int obeing, in early developmental stages

Adj

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nebulous

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vague, cloudy, lacking clearly defined form

Adj

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neologism

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A new word, expression or usage, the creation or use of new words or senses

Noun

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noxious

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harmful, injurious

Adj

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obtuse

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Lacking sharpness of intellect, not clear or precise in thought or expression

Adj

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obviate

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to anticipate and make unnessasary

Verb

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onerous

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troubling burdensome

Adj

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paean

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a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving

noun

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perennial

Back 47

recurrent through the year or many years happening repeatedly

Adj

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perfidy

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interntional breach of faith, treachery

Noun

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perfunctory

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cursory, done without care of interest

Adj

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perspicacious

Back 50

acutely perceptive, having keep discernment

Adj

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prattle

Back 51

to babble meaninglessly to talk in an empty and idle manner
Verb

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precipitate

Back 52

acting with excessive haste or impulse

to cause of happen before anticipated or required
Adj/ verb

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predilecation

Back 53

a disposition in favor of something, preference

Noun

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prevaricate

Back 54

to deliberately avoid the truth to mislead

Verb

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qualms

Back 55

misgivings, reservations, causes for hesitancy

Noun

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perfunctory

Back 56

cursory done without care of interest

Adj

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perspicacious

Back 57

acutely perceptive; having keen discernment

Adj

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recant

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to retract esp a previously helf belief

Verb

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refute

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to disprove to succesfully argue against

Verb

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relegate

Back 60

to forcible assign esp to a lower place or position

Verb

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reticent

Back 61

quiet reserved reluctant to express thoughts and feelings

Adj

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solicitous

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concerned and attentive; eager

adj

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sordid

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characterized by filth, grime or squalor, foul

adj

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sporadic

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occuring only occasionally or in scattered instances

Adj

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squander

Back 65

to waste by spending or using irresponsibly

Verb

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static

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not moving active or in motion at rest

Adj

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stupefy

Back 67

to stun baffle or amaze

Verb

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stymie

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to block, thwart

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synthesis

Back 69

the combination of parts to make a whole

noun

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torque

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a force that causes rotation

Noun

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tortuous

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winding twisting excessuvely complicated

Adj

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truculent

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fierce and creul; eager to fight

Adj

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veracity

Back 73

truthfulness; honesty

Noun

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voracious

Back 74

having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit;ravenous

Adj

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waver

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to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion

Verb