Hit Parade Group 1 Flashcards

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Aberrant

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Deviating from the noun

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Abscond

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To depart to steal off and hide

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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 abnormality

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Approbation

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An expression of approval or praise

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Sedulous

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Strenuous

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Assuage

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To ease or leasen, pacify

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Audacious

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Daring or fearless recklessly bold

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Austere

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Without adornment, bare, simple, ascetic

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Axiomatic

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Taken as being given

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Canonical

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Following or an agreement with excepted 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

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Chicanery

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Trickery or subterfuge

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Connoisseur

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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 or harsh and 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 and 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 boredom or apathy

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Equivocate

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To use ambiguous language with the deceptive intent

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Erudite
Very learned scholarly
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Exculpate
To clear of blame exonerate
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Exigent
Urgent pressing requiring immediate action or attention
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Extemporaneous
Improved done without preparation
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Filibuster
Prolonged speech to display legislative action
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Fulminate
To loudly attack or denounce
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Ingenious
Lacking in sophistication artless
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Inured
Accustomed to accepting something undesirable
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Irascible
Easily angered
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Laud
To praise highly
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Lucid
Clear and easily understood
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Magnanimity
The quality of being generously nobly in mind and heart, forgiving
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Martial
Associated with war or armed forces
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Mundane
Of the world, ordinary
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Nascent
Coming into being
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Nebulous
Vague
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Neologism
A new word or creation or use of new words or senses
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Noxious
Harmful
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Obtuse
Lacking intelligence or precision in thought
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Obviate
To anticipate and make unnecessary
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Onerous
Troubling, burdensome
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Paean
A song or hymn of praise
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Parody
Imitation for comic effect
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Perennial
Reoccurring event over years
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Perfidy
Intentional breach of faith, treachery
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Perfunctory
Cursory, done without care or interest
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Perspicacious
Acutely perceptive
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Prattle
To babble meaninglessly
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Precipitate
Acting on impulse or to cause before anticipated
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Predilection
Preference
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Prescience
Knowing of events prior to their occurrence
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Prevaricate
To mislead
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Qualms
Misgivings, causes for hesitancy
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Recant
To retract something
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Refute
To argue against
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Relegate
To forcibly assign
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Reticent
Quiet and reserved
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Solicitous
Eager, concerned and attentive
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Sordid
Filth, foul in character
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Sporadic
Occurring only in scatted instances
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Squander
To waste by spending or using irresponsibly
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Static
Inactive or at rest
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Stupefy
To stun or amaze
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Stymie
To block or to thwart
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Synthesis
Combining to make a whole
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Torque
Force causing rotation
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Tortuous
Winding, twisting, complicated
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Truculent
Fierce and cruel, eager to fight
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Veracity
Honesty
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Virulent
Extremely harmful or poisonous bitterly hostile or antagonistic
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Voracious
Having an insatiable appetite for an activity, ravenous
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Waver
To move to and fro; to be unsettled in opinion