Hit Parade Extra Flashcards
(129 cards)
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Alloy
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to commingle, to debase by mixing with something inferior (unalloyed means pure)
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Appropriate
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to take for one’s own use, to confiscate
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Arrest
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to suspend, to engage, holding one’s attention
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August
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majestic, venerable
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Bent
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leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency
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Broach
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to bring up, to announce, to begin to talk about
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Brook
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to tolerate, to endure
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Cardinal
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major, as in cardinal sin
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Chauvinist
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a blindly devoted patriot
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Color
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to change as if by dyeing to distort gloss or affect
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Consquential
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pompous, self important
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Damp
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to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound
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Die
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a tool used for shaping, as in a tool and die shop
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Essay
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to test or try, to attempt, to experiment
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Exact
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to demand, to call for, to require, to take (exact revenge)
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Fell
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to cause to fall by striking
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Flag
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to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline
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Flip
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sarcastic, impertinent as in flippant
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Ford
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to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream
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Grouse
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to complain or grumble
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Guy
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a rope cord or cable attached to something as a brace or guide
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Intimate
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to imply, suggest or insinuate
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List
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to tilt or lean to one side
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Lumber
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to move heavily and clumsily
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Meet
fitting, proper
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Milk
to exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of
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Mince
to pronounce or speak affectedly, to euphemize, to speak too carefully - also to take tiny steps, tip toe
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Nice
exacting, fastidious, extremely precise
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Obtain
to be established, accepted or customary
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Occult
hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
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Pedestrian
commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian
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Pine
to lose vigor (as through grief) to yearn
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Plastic
moldable pliable, not rigid
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Pluck
courage, spunk, fortitude
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Prize
to pry or press or force with a lever, something taken by force, spoils
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Rail
to complain about bitterly
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Rent
torn (past tense rend) an opening or tear caused by such
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Quail
to lose courage, to turn frightened
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Sap
to enervate or weaken the quality of
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Scurvy
contemptible, despicable
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Singular
exceptional, unusual, odd
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Stand
a group of trees
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Steep
to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep
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Strut
the supporting structural cross part of a wing
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Table
to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration
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Tender
to proffer or offer
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Waffle
to equivocate, to change one's position
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Wag
wit, joker
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Abjure
to renounce or reject solemnly, to recant, to avoid
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Adumbrate
to foreshadow vaguely
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Anathema
a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse, accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
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Anodyne
soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts
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Apogee
farthest or highest point, culmination, zenith
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Apostate
one who abandons long-held religious or politically convictions
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Apothesis
deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection
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Asperity
severity, rigor, roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability
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Asseverate
to aver, allege or assert
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Assiduous
diligent, hard-working, sedulous
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Augury
omen, portent
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Bellicose
belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
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Calumniate
to slander, to make a false accusation
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Captious
disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument
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Cavil
to find fault without good reason
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Celerity
speed, alacrity (think accelerate)
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Alacrity
brisk and cheerful readiness
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Chimera
an illusion (originally an imaginary fire breathing she-monster)
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Contumacious
insubordinate, rebellious
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Contumely
insult, scorn, aspersion
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Debacle
rout, fiasco, complete failure
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Denouement
an outcome or solution, unraveling of a plot
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Descry
to discriminate or discern
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Desuetude
disuse
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Desultory
random, aimless, marked by a lack of plan or purpose
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Diaphanous
transparent, gauzy
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Diffident
reserved, shy unassuming, lacking in self-confidence
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Dirge
a song of grief or lamentation
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Encomium
glowing and enthusiastic praise, panegyric, tribute, eulogy
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Eschew
to shun or avoid
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Excoriate
to censure scathing, to upbraid
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Exercrate
to denounce, to feel loathing for, to cure, to declare to be evil (like exorcism)
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Exegesis
critical examination, explication
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Expiate
to atone or make amends for
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Extirpate
to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind
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Fatuous
silly, inanely foolish
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Fractious
quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable
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Gainsay
to deny, to dispute to contradict or oppose
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Heterodox
unorthodox, heretical, inconoclastic
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Imbroglio
difficult or embarrassing situation
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Indefatigable
not easily exhaustible, tireless, dogged
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Inelecutable
certain, inevitable
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Inimitable
one of a kind, peerless
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Insouciant
unconcerned, carefree, heedless
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Inveterate
deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
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Jejune
vapid, uninteresting, nugatory, childish, immature, puerile
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Lubricious
lewd, wanton, greasy slippery
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Lewd
crude and offensive in a sexual way
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Mendicant
a beggar, supplicant
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Meretricious
cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy, attracting by false show
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Minatory
menacing threatening (like Minotaur threatening creature indeed)
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Nadir
low point, below zenith, perigee
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Nonplussed
baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or thing
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Obstreperous
noisily and stubbornly defiant
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Ossified
tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile and reactionary with age (literally = turned to bone)
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Palliate
to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense
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Panegyric
formal praise, eulogy
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Encomium
Expressing elaborate praise
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Parsimonious
cheap, miserly
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Pellucid
transparent, easy to understand, limpid
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Peroration
the concluding part of a speech, flowery rhetorical speech
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Plangent
pounding, thundering, resounding
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Prolix
long-winded, verbose
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Propitiate
to appease, to conciliate, (propitious means auspicious, favorable)
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Puerile
childish, immature, jejune, nugatory
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Puissance
power, strength (puissant means powerful and strong)
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Pusillanimous
cowardly, craven
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Remonstrate
to protest, to object
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Sagacious
having sound judgement, perceptive, wise like a sage
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Salutary
remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
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Sanguine
cheerful, confident, optimistic
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Saturnine
gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
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Sententious
aphoristic or moralistic, epigrammatic, tending to moralize excessively
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Stentorian
extremely loud and powerful
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Stygian
gloomy, dark
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Sycophant
self-seeking flatterer, toady, servile, parasite
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Tendentious
biased, showing marked tendencies
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Timorous
timid, fearful, diffident
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Tyro
novice, greenhorn, rank amateur
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Vitiate
to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective
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Voluble
fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language
