Sat: The Hit Parade

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Candid
Candace's candidness overwhelmed her business colleaugues, who were not used to such honesty

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::Completely honest, straightforward

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Conjecture

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::inference; guesswork

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Didactic
(die DAK tik)
your learning so much your gonna die

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::instructive

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effusive
Christine accepted her award with the most effusive speech in school history: she cried, she hugged ppl, she blew kisses to the audience, and then she cried some more.

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::Showing excessive emotion; overflowing

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euphemism

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::a mild, indirect, or vague term substituting for a harsh, blunt, or offensive term

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extrapolate
Think detectives. Bad cop good cop. Dark room with a bright light. Questioning the suspect intensively and or giving him "physical encouragemen" wink wink

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::to infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information

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incoherent
think Hannah after a week of not sleeping and no coffee. She just said something---didnt make any sense....

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::lacking cohesion or connection

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Insinuate
Is your comment about my pretty eyes insinuating that my new hairstyle is awful? What? Yellow, green, red, and purple dont go together anymore?

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::to imply or communicate stealthily

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Loquacius
Its like if squirrels could talk and they took some coffee and you were trying to have a conversation with it but it would just talk about all its furry squirrel problems...squirrels are food not friends....

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::very talkative

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Lucid
His lessons are all over the place and never make any sense. He's as lucid as a muddy river in which all the neighboring farms and industries dump their raw sewage and old dead cows into....water anyone?

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::easily understood; clear

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rhetoric

(RET uh rik)
its that class that crazy teacher teaches. Her elequent speechs entertain students of all kinds!

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::the art of using language effectively and persuasively

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Acumen

Since she's danced her whole life, sydnee's acumen locates the flaws where you only see perfection.

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::quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight

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Adroit

An adroit ballon-animal maker, the hippo soon became very respected in the Black Market

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::dexterous; deft

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Ascertain

The private investigator had long suspected my dog; before long, he ascertained that Fluffy was indeed the murderer.

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::to find out, as thrugh investigation or experimentation

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Astute

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::shrewd, clever

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Circumspect

Circle has circumspect manner when he inspects his surrounding when entering the dangerous triangle neighborhoods. He just might have his diameter ruptured by a flying pentagon...

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::careful; prudent; discreet

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Disseminate
(dis SEM uh nayt)

think dandelions. and as the wind blows each seed turns into flying magical unicorns!

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::to scatter widely,as in sowing seed

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Erudition
(er yuh DISH un)

Professor Rudy's eruditon was such that she could answer any question her students put to her.

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::deep, extensive learning

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Pedantic
(puh DAN tik)

Pedro's pedantic tendencies prompted him to remind us constantly of all the grammatical rules we were breaking.

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::excessively concerned w/book learning and formal rules

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Perspicacious

Persephone's perspicaious mind had solved so many cases that the popular private investagor was able to retire.

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::shrewd; clear-sighted

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Pragmatic

Never one for wild and unrealistic schemes, Matt took a pragmatic approach to research.

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::practical

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Precocious
Bobby Fisher's precocious intellect made him one of the world's best chess players before he oculd even drive.

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::exhibiting unusually early intellectual aptitude or maturity

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Prolific
Hamilton was the world's most prolific author; it is estimated he wrote the equivalent of one thousand novels.

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::very productive; producing great qualities

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Prospectus
(pro SPEK tus)
Before writing my thesis, I had to submit a detailed prospectus to the department for approval.

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::formal proposal

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Rudimentary
Josh's rudimentary golf skills were easily overpowered by Tiger Wood's amazing performance on the green

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::basic; elementary; in the earliest stages of development

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Ameliorate

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::to make or become better, more bearable, or more satisfactory; improve

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Abstruse

Abby found her professor's lecture on non-Euclidian geometry abstruse; she dounted anyone else in the class understood either.

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::difficult to understand

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Callous

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::emotionally hardened; unfeeling

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Convoluted
(kon vo LOO tid)
The directions were so convoluted that we became hopelessly lost.

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::intricate; complex

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Enigma

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::a puzzle, mystery, or riddle

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Inscrutable

The ancient poet's handwriting was so inscrutable, that even the most prominent Latin scholars could not read the manuscript.

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::difficult to fathom or understand; impentrable

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Reticent

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inclined to keep silent; reserved

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Staid

Mr. Estado was well known for his staid demeanor; he stayed calm even when everyone else celebrated the team's amazing victory.

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::unemotional; serious

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Arcane

The dusty archive inclueds an arcane treasure trove of nautical charts from the Age of Discovery.

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known or understood by only a few

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Assimilate

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to absorb or become absorbed; to make or become similar

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Autonomy

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independence; self-determination

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Cosmopolitan

Inga was surprisingly cosmopolitan considering that she never left her tiny hometown in Norway.

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worldly;widely sophisticated

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Derivative (n)

Special Victims Unit and Criminal Intent are derivatives of the original Law and Order drama series.

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something that comes from another source

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Esoteric

Esme's play is extremely esoteric; someone not raised in Estonia would find it difficult to follow

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intended for or understood by only a small group

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Gaffe

Geoff committed the gaffe of telling his date that he'd gone out with her sister the night before

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a clumsy social error

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Idiosyncrasy

She had many idiosyncrasies, one of which was washing her socks in the dishwasher.

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characteristic peculiar to an individual or group

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Insular (IN suh ler)

The family was so insular that no one else could get near them.

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isolated; narrow or provincial

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Orthodox

My father held an orthodox view of baseball; he believed that the field should be outside and made of real grass.

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adhering to the traditional and established, especially in religion

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Potentate

An omnipotent potentate is a person to be reckoned with; great power in the hands of a great leader is a powerful combination.

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one who has the power and postion to rule over others; monarch

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Castigate

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to scold, rebuke, or harshly criticize

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Censure

In recent years the FCC has cenured networks for the provocative antics of Super Bowl halftime acts; what goes on during the game, however, usually escapes the organization's notice

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to issue official blame

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Denoounce

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to condemn openly

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Reclusive

Our neighbors were quite reclusive, hardly ever emerging from behind the closed doors of their home.

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seeking or preferring seclusion or isolation

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Relinquish

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to retire from; ive up or abandon

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Renounce

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to give up (a title, for example), especially by formal announcement

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Vituperative

The vituperative speech was so cruel that the members left felling completely abused.

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marked by harshly abusive condemnation

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Circumscribe

The archeologist cercumscribed the excavation area on the map

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to draw a circle around; to restrict

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Contiguous (kun TIG yoo us)

The continental US consists of 48 contiguous states.

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sharing an edge or boundary; touching

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Conciliatory

After arguing endlessly with them for weeks, Connie swithced to a more conciliatory tone with her parents once prom season arrived.

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appeasing; soothing; showing willingness to reconcile

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Credible

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capable of being believed; plausible

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Exonerate

Xena was exonerated of all charges.

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to free from blame

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Incontrovertible

The videotape of the robbery provide incontrovertible evidence against the suspect--he was obviously guilty.

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indisputable; not open to question

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Indict (in DITE)

President Nixon's aides were indicted during the Watergate scandal.

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to officially charge with wrongdoing or a crime

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Litigious (luh TIJ us)

Letitia was a litigious girl; at one point, she tried to sue her dog.

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prone to engage in lawsuits

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Partisan (adj.)

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devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause

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Parity

The judges at the Olympics must score each athlete's performance with parity; such impartial treatment is hard since one always wants to root for one's own country.

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equality, as in amount, status, or value (antonym: disparity)

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Recitude (REK ti tood)

Thanks to his unerring sense of fairness and justice, Viktor was a model of moral rectitude; his hometown even erected a statue in his honor

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moral uprightness; righteousness

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Remiss

Cassie was remiss in fulfilling her Miss America duties; she didn't even come close to ending world hunger.

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lax in attending to duty; negligent