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Hit Parade #3 Flashcards

1
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Aver

A

To state as a fact; declare or assert

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2
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Bolster

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Provide support or reinforcement

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Dissemble

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To disguise or conceal; mislead;
He dissembled his incompetence at work

Feign - put an appearance of
He dissembled innocence

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4
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Endemic

A

Natural or characteristic of a specific people or place (disease or condition)

Some diseases are only endemic to the Bedouins.

=/= pandemic

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5
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Evanesce
Evanescent
Evanescence

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To disappear gradually, vanish, fade away

Vanishing, fading away (memory, sight, existence)

I hope my memories of Syria will never evanesce!

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Fortuitous / for tyoo itous

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Adventitious, happening by accident or chance

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7
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Grandiloquent

Grandiloquence

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Pompous speech, pompous in speech and writing

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Hackneyed

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Rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage

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Idolatrous / EYE dolatrous

Idolatry

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Given to intense or excessive devotion to someone or something

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10
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Impassive

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Revealing no emotion

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Imperturbable

Perturb

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Calm, cannot be upset

To disturb, aggrieve

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12
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Implacable

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Not capable of being appeased; cannot be placated

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Impunity / im pyoon ity

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Immunity, an exemption from punishment

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Infelicitous / in fel is it us

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Inappropriate, awkward - infelicitous remark

Unfortunate, unhapppy

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Malevolent

Malevolence

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Having or showing often viscous ill will;

Spite, hatred

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Mendacity

Mendacious

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Condition of being untruthful and dishonest

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17
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Occlude

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Obstruct or block

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18
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Opprobrium

Opprobrious

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Extremely disgraceful and shameful

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Ostentatious

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Pretentious, affected

20
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Obsequious

Obsequience

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Excessively submissive

21
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Pedantic

Pedant

A

Show off about learning; overly concerned with trivial details of learning

22
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Penury / PEN ury

Penurious

A

Extreme poverty; destitute

Very poor, impecunious BUT ALSO parsimonious

23
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Pine

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V - to yearn deeply; suffer with longing (for)

To pine for one’s home

24
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Pirate

Piracy

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V - to rob, plunder;

Use or reproduce (music) without legal right/authorization

25
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Pith

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Essential or central part; pith of the matter

26
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Pithy

A

Precise and brief

27
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Placate

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To appease, to calm by making concessions

The mayor placated the angry citizenry

28
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Platitude

A

Statement with moral content but used too often to be interesting or thoughtful

Hackneyed apothegm

Dull, ordinary, commonplace, prosaic

29
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Polemic

A

Art or practice of engaging in controversial debate or dispute

30
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Polemical

A

Controversial, argumentative

31
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Prodigal

A

Wasteful; lavish, extravagant

32
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Profuse - adj

Profusion

A

Abundant

Also extravagant

33
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Query

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N - question; inquiries; mental reservation, doubt

V - To ask a question about something (especially to express doubt or check validity/accuracy)

34
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Rancor

Rancorous

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Bitter, resentment, ill will, malevolence, malice

To feel that way^

35
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Recalcitrant

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Resisting authority or control; not obedient

36
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Repudiate

A

Refuse to have anything to do with…

Disown, disclaim, disavow

37
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Spurious

A

Not genuine, authentic, counterfeit

38
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Subpoena / sub pee nuh

A

Court order requiring appearance and/or testimony

39
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Succinct

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Brief, concise, pithy, laconic

40
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Prolix / pro licks

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Verbose, wordy

41
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Superfluous / super fluous

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Unnecessary, more than enough

Supererogatory

42
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Surfeit / sur fit

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Excess; uncomfortably full due to excessive eating or drinking

43
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Tenacity

A

Quality of adherence or persistence to something valued

Persistent determination

44
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Tenuous

A

Weak; lacking a sound basis; unsubstantiated

The lawyer presented a tenuous argument based upon a conjecture.

45
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Transient

A

Transitory; fleeting, lasting for a short time; impermanent

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