Beyond the Hit Parade Group 1

Question 1

(verb)
to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior

(E) unalloyed means pure

Answer 1

Alloy

Question 2

(verb)

to take for one’s own use; to confiscate

Answer 2

Appropriate

Question 3

(verb/adj.)

to suspend; to engage; holding one’s attention

Answer 3

Arrest

(E) an arrested adolescence; an arresting portrait

Question 4

(adj.)

majestic, venerable

Answer 4

August

Question 5

(noun)

leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

Answer 5

Bent

Question 6

(verb)

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

Answer 6

Broach

Question 7

(verb)

to tolerate; to endure; to countenance

Answer 7

Brook

(E) will not brook insults from my own employees

Question 8

(adj.)

major

Answer 8

Cardinal

(E) cardinal sin

Question 9

(noun)

a blindly devoted patriot; undue partiality or attachment to a group or place to which one belongs or has belonged

Answer 9

Chauvinist

Question 10

(verb)

to change as if by dyeing, ie. to distort, gloss or affect

Answer 10

Color

Question 11

(adj.)

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

Answer 11

Consequential

Question 12

(verb)

to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound

Answer 12

Damp

Question 13

(noun)

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

Answer 13

Die

Question 14

(verb)

to test or try; to attempt; to experiment

Answer 14

Essay

(E) need to run a few laps before essaying on a sprint

Question 15

(verb)

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

Answer 15

Exact

Question 16

(adj.)

to cause to fall by striking

Answer 16

Fell

(E) felled by a heart attack; to fell a tree

Question 17

(verb)

to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline

Answer 17

Flag

Question 18

(adj.)

inhumanly cruel

Answer 18

Fell

(E) a fell purpose; a fell disease

Question 19

(verb)

to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

Answer 19

Ford

(E) weren’t sure if the river was fordable

Question 20

(verb)

to complain or grumble

Answer 20

Grouse

(E) grousing about her work environment

Question 21

(verb)

to imply, suggest or insinuate

Answer 21

Intimate

(E) trying to intimate there was more going on than anyone knew

Question 22

(verb)

to tilt or lean to one side

Answer 22

List

(E) they wanted to list the ship towards the dock

Question 23

(verb)

to move heavily and clumsily

Answer 23

Lumber

Question 24

(adj.)

fitting, proper

Answer 24

Meet

(E) seems like a meet solution

Question 25

(verb) | to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of

Answer 25

Milk

Question 26

(verb) | to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize, to speak too carefully

Answer 26

Mince (E) minced no words in stating his dislike

Question 27

(adj.) | exacting, fastidious/particular, extremely precise

Answer 27

Nice (E) too nice a palate to enjoy junk food

Question 28

(adj.) | commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian

Answer 28

Pedestrian (E) a performance too pedestrian for such an audience

Question 29

(adj.) | multicolored, usually in blotches

Answer 29

Pied (E) the pied coat of the horse

Question 30

(verb) | to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn

Answer 30

Pine (E) still pined after their lost wealth

Question 31

(adj.) | moldable, pliable, not rigid

Answer 31

Plastic

Question 32

(noun) | courage, spink, fortitude

Answer 32

Pluck (E) it takes pluck to do what she did

Question 33

(verb) | to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils

Answer 33

Prize (E) to prize it out of her hands

Question 34

(verb) | to complain about bitterly

Answer 34

Rail (E) kept railing about her last relationship

Question 35

(verb) | torn (past tense of rend); an opening or tear caused by such

Answer 35

Rent (E) have to rent the clams open

Question 36

(verb) | to lose courage; to turn frightened

Answer 36

Quail (E) her courage never quailed

Question 37

(verb) | to limit

Answer 37

Qualify

Question 38

(verb) | to enervate or weaken the vitality of

Answer 38

Sap (E) sap the life out of him

Question 39

(noun) | a fool or nitwit

Answer 39

Sap (E) sappy lovesongs

Question 40

(noun) | a rope, cord or cable attached to something as a brace or guide

Answer 40

Guy (E) they wanted to guy the posts with braces

Question 41

(adj.) | despicable, contemptible

Answer 41

Scurvy (E) despicable scurvy me

Question 42

(adj.) | exceptional, unusual, odd

Answer 42

Singular

Question 43

(noun) | a group of trees

Answer 43

Stand (E) let's go by the stand over there

Question 44

(noun) | the supporting structural cross-part of a wing

Answer 44

Strut

Question 45

(verb) | to remove from consideration

Answer 45

Table (E) find a way to table the motion

Question 46

(verb) | to proffer or offer

Answer 46

Tender

Question 47

(verb) | to equivocate; to change one's position

Answer 47

Waffle (E) waffled on the important issues

Question 48

(noun) | wit, joker

Answer 48

Wag