Hit Parade Group 1 Vocab

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abscond

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verb; to depart clandestinely

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belie

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verb; to give a false impression of; to misrepresent

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bombast

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noun; self important or pompos writing or speech

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castigation

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noun; severe criticism or punishment

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censure

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a verb; to criticize severely; to officially rebuke

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chicanery

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noun; trickery or subterfuge

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coercive

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adjective; serving or intended to compel by force or authority

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craven

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adjective, lacking any courage, fainhearted

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denigrate

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verb; to blacken; to belittle, to sully, defame or to disparage

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denounce

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verb; to publicly condemn or criticize

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derision

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noun, scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment

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diatribe

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noun, harsh denunciation

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discomfit

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verb, to defeat; to put down

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disingenuous

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adj. insincere; lacking in honesty

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dissemble

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verb, to disguise or conceal, to mislead

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furtive

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adjective, marked by stealth; surreptitious

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garrulous

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adj. pointlessly talkative; talking too much. "garry was garish and garrulous!"
a garrulous gary.

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harrangue

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verb, to deliver a pompous speech or tirade

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impudent

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adj, saucy, impertinent, bold and disrespectful
impudent- imps are impudent!

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martial

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adj. associated with war and the armed forces

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misanthrope

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noun. one who hates all other humans. i am a total misanthrope

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obdurate

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adj. unyielding, hardhearted, intractable
obdurate- sounds like subjugate and obsessive- subjugate someone to obsessive people is obdurate behavior!
obsolete, oblique?

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obsequious

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exhibiting a fawning attentiveness- PCF

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onerous

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adj, troubling, burdensome

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opprobium

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noun- disgrace, contempt, scorn
opprobium- like opium- we harbor an opprobium against- like a vendettta against opium dens

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pedantic

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adj. the pararding of elarning, excesive attention to minutae and formal rules. Ayesha exhibits pendantic behavior toward her father.

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recalcitrant

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adjective, obstinately defiant of authority, difficult to manage.
calcium- difficult to anage- calcification- makes it difficult to remove the deposit so recalcitrant means obstinately defiant of authority.

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to secrete

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verb- to conceal, stow, ensconce

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specious

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adj. seeming true, but actually being fallacious, misleadingly attractive- like the GRE options!

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squander

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verb- to waste by spending or using irresponsibly- squandered my paycheck on clothes.

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vexation

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annoyance or irritation. NOT VEXED!

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abjure

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to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

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abrogate

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verb, to abolish or annul by authority, to put down

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abscission

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noun, the act of cutting off or removing

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acarpous

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adjective, no longer fertile, worn out

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accretion

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noun- growth, increase by successive addition; building up

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adroit

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adept, dexterous

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adumbrate

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verb- to foreshadow or to intimate; suggest sketchily; to obscure

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anathema

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noun- a solemn or ecclesiastical curse, accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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anodyne

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adjective/noun- soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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antipathy

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noun, aversion, dislike

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apocryphal

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adjective- of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious

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apogee

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noun- farthest or highest point, zenith

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apotheosis

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noun; deification, glorification to godliness

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apposite

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adjective- pertinent, relevant- "apropos"

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apprise

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verb, to inform, to give notice to

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arabesque

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noun- a complex, ornate design

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arcane

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adj, mysterious, abstruse, esoteric, knowable only to initiates

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arrant

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adjective- impudent- lacking modesty, boldly arrogant

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asperity

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noun- severity, rigor; roughness; harshness; acrimony; irritability

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aspersion

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noun- an act of defamation or maligning, animadversion

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asseverate

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verb- to aver, to allege, to assert

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auspice

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noun- patronage, protection or support

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aver

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verb- to affirm, to assert, to asseverate, to justify

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bane

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noun- cause of injury, poison, source of harm

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bedizen

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verb- to adorn, showery manner, to festoon- bedazzle!

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belie

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verb- to give a false impression of, to misrepresent

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bellicose

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belligerent

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bilge

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noun- bulge, the protuberance of a cask

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blandish

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verb, to fawn

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boor

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noun, a rude person

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byzantine

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adjective- labyrinthine, complex

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cabal

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noun; a scheme or plot- a group of plotters

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cachinnate

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verb; to laugh loudly

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cadge

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verb- to sponge or mooch

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calumniate

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verb; to slander, make a false impression

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calumny

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noun, slander, aspersion

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caparison

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verb- to adorn or bedizen

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captious

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adj- calculated to confuse or entrap in argument, hypercritical, caviling

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caret

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noun- an insertion mark used by editors and proofreaders

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cavil

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verb, to find fault without good reason

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celerity

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noun. sped, alacrity

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chasten

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verb- to chastise or correct