Beyond the Hit Parade Group #1

Question 0

Appropriate

Verb

Answer 0

To take for one’s own use; to confiscate

Question 1

Alloy

Verb

Answer 1

To commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; “unalloyed” means pure

Question 2

Arrest (Verb)

Arresting (Adj.)

Answer 2

To suspend; to engage; holding one’s attention: as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait

Question 3

August

Adj.

Answer 3

Majestic, venerable

Question 4

Bent

Noun

Answer 4

Leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

Question 5

Broach

Verb

Answer 5

To bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about

Question 6

Brook

Verb

Answer 6

To tolerate; to endure; to countenance

Question 7

Cardinal

Adj.

Answer 7

Major, as in cardinal sin

Question 8

Chauvinist

Noun

Answer 8

A blindly devoted patriot

Question 9

Color

Verb

Answer 9

To change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss, or affect (usually the first)

Question 10

Consequential

Adj.

Answer 10

Pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following; important)

Question 11

Damp

Verb

Answer 11

To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound

Question 12

Die

Noun

Answer 12

A tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop

Question 13

Essay

Verb

Answer 13

A test or try; to attempt; to experiment

Question 14

Exact

Verb

Answer 14

To demand; to call for; to require; to take

Question 15

Fell

Verb

Answer 15

To cause to fall by striking

Question 16

Fell

Adj.

Answer 16

Inhumanly cruel

Question 17

Flag

Verb

Answer 17

To sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline

Question 18

Flip

Adj.

Answer 18

Sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark

Question 19

Ford

Verb

Answer 19

To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

Question 20

Grouse

Verb

Answer 20

To complain or grumble

Question 21

Guy

Noun

Answer 21

A rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: Think “guide”

Question 22

Intimate

Verb

Answer 22

To imply, suggest, or insinuate

Question 23

List

Verb

Answer 23

To tilt or lean to one side

Question 24

Lumber | Verb

Answer 24

To move heavily and clumsily

Question 25

Meet | Adj.

Answer 25

Fitting, proper

Question 26

Milk | Verb

Answer 26

To exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of

Question 27

Mince | Verb

Answer 27

To pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize to speak too carefully. Also, to take tiny steps; to tiptoe

Question 28

Nice | Adj.

Answer 28

Exacting, fastidious, extremely precise

Question 29

Obtain | Adj.

Answer 29

To be established, accepted, or customary

Question 30

Occult | Adj.

Answer 30

Hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

Question 31

Pedestrian | Adj.

Answer 31

Commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian

Question 32

Pied | Adj.

Answer 32

Multicolored, usually in blotches

Question 33

Pine | Verb

Answer 33

To lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn

Question 34

Plastic | Adj.

Answer 34

Moldable, pliable, not rigid

Question 35

Pluck | Noun

Answer 35

Courage, spunk, fortitude

Question 36

Prize | Verb

Answer 36

To pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils

Question 37

Rail | Verb

Answer 37

To complain about bitterly

Question 38

Rent | Verb

Answer 38

Torn (past tense of rend); an opening or tear causes by such

Question 39

Quail | Verb

Answer 39

To lose courage; to turn frightened

Question 40

Qualify | Verb

Answer 40

To limit

Question 41

Sap | Verb

Answer 41

To enervate or weaken the vitality of

Question 42

Sap | Noun

Answer 42

A fool or nitwit

Question 43

Scurvy | Adj.

Answer 43

Contemptible, despicable

Question 44

Singular | Adj.

Answer 44

Exceptional, unusual, odd

Question 45

Stand | Noun

Answer 45

A group of trees

Question 46

Steep | Verb

Answer 46

To saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep

Question 47

Strut | Noun

Answer 47

The supporting structural cross-part of a wing

Question 48

Table | Verb

Answer 48

To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration

Question 49

Tender | Verb

Answer 49

To proffer or offer

Question 50

Waffle | Verb

Answer 50

To equivocate; to change one's position

Question 51

Wag | Noun

Answer 51

Wit, joker