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Hit Parade 1&2 Flashcards

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Truculent (adj.):

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Fierce & cruel, eager to fight / criticism

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Stymie (verb):

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Block, thwart

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Veracity (noun):

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Truthfulness, honesty

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Voracious (adj.):

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Insatiable appetite for an activity / pursuit; ravenous

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Abate (verb):

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To lessen in intensity / degree; music abated her anxiety

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Accolade (noun):

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An expression of praise / the play received accolades

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Adulation (noun):

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Excessive praise, intense adoration / his adulation scared her away

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Ameliorate (verb):

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To make better or more tolerable / RAs try to ameliorate roommate conflict

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Ascetic (adj.):

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One who practices rigid self denial, esp as an act of religious devotion / a monk at the convent

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Avarice (noun):

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Greed, esp for wealth / his biggest sin was avarice for money.

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Axiom (noun):

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A universally recognized principle / gravity is an axiom

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Burgeon (verb):

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To grow rapidly or flourish / he burgeoned into a fine actor after moving to NYC

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Bucolic (adj.):

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Rustic & pastoral, characteristic of rural areas & their inhabitants / the vintage painting had a bucolic feel

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Cacophony (noun):

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Harsh, jarring, discordant sound, dissonance / produced by city traffic at mid-day

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Canon (noun):

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Established set of principles or codes of law, often religious in nature / canons of good behavior

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Castigation (noun):

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Severe criticism or punishment / castigation for lying

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Caustic (adj.):

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Burning or stinging, causing corrosion / caustic chemical

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Chary (adj.):

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Wary, cautious, sparing / chary of texting too much

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Cogent (adj.):

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Appealing forcibly to the mind / reason, convincing / cogent evidence of the crime

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Complaisance (noun):

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Willingness to comply w/ the wishes of others / a complaisant child follows the rules

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Contentious (adj.):

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Argumentative, quarrelsome, causing controversy or

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Contrite (adj.):

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Regretful, pertinent, seeking forgiveness / a sinner

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Culpable (adj.):

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Deserving blame / a thief

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Dearth (noun):

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Smallness of quantity / numbers, scarcity, a lack / a dearth of dateable men

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Demur (verb):
To question or oppose / I demur this church's beliefs
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Didactic (adj.):
Intended to teach or instruct / a self-help book
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Ebullience (noun):
Quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts / feelings / mood, bubbly
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Enigmatic (adj.):
Mysterious, obscure, difficult to understand / look on her face, a book
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Ephemeral (adj.):
Brief, fleeting / childhood is ephemeral
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Esoteric (adj.):
Intended for or understood by a small, specific group / genetic counseling had an esoteric feel to it
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Exonerate (verb):
To remove blame / I confessed of the accident, exonerating my sister
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Facetious (adj.):
Playful, humorous / a remark to lighten the mood
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Furtive (adj.:
Marked by stealth, covert, surreptitious / a glance
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Harangue (verb/noun):
To deliver a pompous speech or tirade; a long, pompous speech / sounds miserable
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Hyperbole (noun):
Exaggerated statement / "to wait an eternity"
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Impecunious (adj.):
Lacking funds, without money / this adventure has left me impecunious, many of our patients are
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Incipient (adj.):
Beginning to come into being or to become apparent / a cold is incipient when you feel that first throat tickle
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Innocuous (adj.):
Harmless, causing no damage / a rainstorm in innocuous compared to a tsunami
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Intransigent (adj.):
Refusing to compromise / wouldn't want to date an intransigent man, stubborn
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Inveigle (verb):
To obtain by deception or flattery / tricked you into coming with me, into giving me money
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Merose (adj.):
Sad, sullen, melancholy / a mood on a rainy day
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Odious (adj.):
Evoking intense aversion or dislike / odious smell
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Opaque (adj.):
Impenetrable by light, not reflecting light / window in the bathroom, can't see clearly through it
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Penurious (adj.):
Penny-pinching, excessively thrifty, ungenerous / how I feel after the holidays
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Pernicious (adj.):
Extremely harmful, potentially causing death / jumping off a rocky cliff into the water below
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Peruse (verb):
To examine with great care / doctor perused the wound, me at a book store...or any store
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Prodigious (adj.):
Abundant in size, force, extent, extraordinary / a talent
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Quaff (verb):
To drink deeply / we quaffed wine at the tasting party, first sip of coffee in the morning
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Quiescence (noun):
Stillness, at rest / my mind after prayer
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Redoubtable (adj.):
Awe-inspiring, worthy of honor / Mt. Rainier produces a redoubtable response to its creator
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Stoic (adj.):
Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain, steadfast / a stoic hope
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Supplant (verb):
To take the place of, to supersede / i supplanted my old socks with new ones
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Torpid (adj.):
Inactive, sluggish / Zoey's become a torpid dog in her old age
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Urbane (adj.):
Sophisticated, elegant / maintained a urbane tone in his letters, a sense of style
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Vilify (verb):
To defame, to characterize harshly / slander
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Abscond (verb):
To depart clandestinely; to steal off & hide / the cashier absconded with the money
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Aberrant (adj.):
Deviating from the norm / hipster
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Alacrity (noun):
Eager & enthusiastic willingness / we accepted the invite with alacrity, "SURE!!!! :))))"
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Anomaly (noun):
Deviation from normal order, form, or rule; abnormality / quiet nature is an anomaly among exuberant people
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Approbation (noun):
An expression of approval or praise / I sing approbations to God
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Arduous (adj.):
Strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort / running a marathon would be arduous
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Assuage (verb):
To lesson or ease; to appease or pacify / Taco Bell assuages my hangry attitude
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Audacious (adj.):
Daring & fearless, recklessly bold / "How dare they!!" = "How audacious!"
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Austere (adj.):
Without adornment, bare, severely simple, ascetic / the nun lead an austere life
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Axiomatic (adj.):
Taken as given, possessing self-evident truth
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Canonical (adj.):
Following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards
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Capricious (adj.):
Inclined to change one's mind impulsively, erratic, unpredictable
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Censure (verb):
To criticize severely, to officially rebuke / the newspapers censured the terror group's practices
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Chicanery (noun):
Trickery or subterfuge / the car salesman resorted to chicanery to make quota
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Connoisseur (noun):
An informed & astute judge in matters of taste, expert / Seattlites with coffee
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Convoluted (adj.):
Complex or complicated
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Disabuse (verb):
To un-deceive, to set right / he disabused her after an afternoon of pranks
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Discordant (adj.):
Conflicting, dissonant or harsh in sound / opinions about underage drinking
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Disparate (adj.):
Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar / cats & dogs are disparate pets
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Effrontery (noun):
Extreme boldness, presumptuousness / she has the effrontery to ask for TWO free samples
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Enervate (verb):
To weaken, to reduce in vitality / walking up 11 stories to my apt enervates me
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Ennui (noun):
Dissatisfaction / restlessness due to boredom / apathy
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Equivocate (verb):
To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent

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