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Hit Parade #1 Flashcards

1
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Abscond

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to depart clandestinely; to depart secretly

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Aberrant

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Deviating from the norm

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Alacrity

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Eager and enthusiastic willingness

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Anomaly

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Deviation from the normal order, form or rule

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Approbation

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An expression of approval or praise

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Arduous

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Strenuous; taxing; requiring significant effort

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Assuage

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To ease or lessen; to relieve; to appease or pacify

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Audacious

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Daring and fearless; recklessly bold

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Austere

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Without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic

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Axiomatic

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Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth

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Canonical

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Following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards

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Capricious

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inclined to change one’s mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable

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Censure

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To criticize severely; to officially rebuke

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Chicanery

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Trickery and subterfuge

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Connoisseur

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an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert

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Convoluted

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Complex or complicated

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Disabuse

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to undeceive; to set right

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Discordant

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Conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound

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Disparate

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Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar

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Effrontery

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Extreme boldness; presumptuousness

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Eloquent

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well-spoken; expressive; articulate

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Enervate

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To weaken

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Ennui

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Dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredome

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Equivocate

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To use ambiguous language with deceptive intent

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Erudite

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educated; scholarly

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Exculpate

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free from blame

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Exigent

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urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action

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Extemporaneous

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Improvised

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Filibuster

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intentional obstruction to delay legislation

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Fulminate

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to loudly attack or denounce

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Ingenuous

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artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication

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Inured

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accustomed to accepting something undesirable

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Irascible

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easily angered; prone to temperamental outburts

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Laud

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to praise highly

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Lucid

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Clear; easily understood

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Magnanimity

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the quality of being generously noble and forgiving

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Martial

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Associated with war and the armed forces

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Mundane

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of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary

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Nascent

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in early developmental stages; coming into being

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Nebulous

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vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form

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Neologism

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a new word, expression, or usage; the creation of new use of words

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Noxious

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Harmful; injurious

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Obtuse

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lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression

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Obviate

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to anticipate and make unnecessary

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Onerous

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troubling; burdensome

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Pacan

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a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving

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Parody

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a humorous imitation intended to ridicule

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Perennial

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happening repeatedly

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Perfidy

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intentional breach of faith; treachery

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Perfunctory

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done without care or interest

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Perspicacious

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acutely perceptive; having keen discernment

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Prattle

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to babble meaninglessly

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Precipitate

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acting with excessive haste or impulse; to cause of happen before anticipated or required

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Predilection

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preference

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Prescience

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knowing of events prior to their occurring

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Prevaricate

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to deliberately avoid the truth

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Qualms

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misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy

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Recant

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to retract, especially a previously held belief

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Refute

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to dispute; to successfully argue a point

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Reticent

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quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings

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Relegate

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to forcibly assign, especially to a lower place or position

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Solicitous

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concerned and attentive; eager

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Sordid

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characterized by filth, grime, or squalor

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Sporadic

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occurring only occasionally

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Squander

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to waste by spending or using irresponibly

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Static

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at rest; not moving, active or in motion

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Stupefy

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to stun, baffle, or amaze

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Stymie

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to block; to thwart

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Synthesis

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the combination of parts to make a whole

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Torque

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a force that causes rotation

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Tortuous

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winding, twisting; excessively complicated

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Truculent

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fierce and cruel; eager to fight

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Veracity

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Truthfulness; honesty

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Virulent

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Extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic

75
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Voracious

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ravenous; having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit

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Waver

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to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion

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