Hit Parade Group 3

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Adulterate

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To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients

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Acumen

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Keen

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Amalgamate

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To combine several elements into a whole

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Archaic

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Outdated

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Aver

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To state a fact or to declare

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Bolster

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To provide support or reinforcement

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Bombastic

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Pompous, grandiloquent

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Diatribe

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A harsh denunciation

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Dissemble

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To disguise or conceal

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Eccentric

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Departing from the norm

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Endemic

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Characteristic of or often found in a particular locality of people or religion

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Evanescent

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Tending to disappear like vapor

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Exacerbate

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To make worse or more severe

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Fervent

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Greatly emotional or zealous

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Fortuitous

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Happening by accident or chance

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Germane

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Relevant to the subject at hand

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Grandiloquence

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Pompous

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Hackneyed

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Rendered common by frequent use

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Halcyon

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Calm and peaceful

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Hedonism

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Devotion to pleasure

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Hegemony

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Dominance of one state or ideology over another

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Iconoclast

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One who attacks or undermines conventions

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Idolatrous

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Excessive devotion to something

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Impassive

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Revealing no emotion

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Imperturbable

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Extreme calmness and steadiness

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Implacable

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Not capable of being appeased or changed

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Impunity

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Immunity from punishment

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Inchoate

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An initial stage, not fully formed

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Infelicitous

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Unfortunate, inappropriate

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Insipid

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Without taste or flavor

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Loquacious

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Extremely talkative

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Luminous

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Characterized by brightness, or emission of ligjt

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Malevolent

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Ill will, hatred

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Malleable

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Capable of being shaped or formed

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Mendacity

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Dishonesty

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Meticulous

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Attentive to detail

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Misanthrope

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One who hates all other humans

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Mitigate

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To make or become less severe

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Obdurate

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Unyielding, intractable

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Obsequious

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Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness

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Occulate

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To obstruct or block

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Opprobrium

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Disgrace, scorn

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Pedagogy

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The profession or principles of teaching

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Pedantic

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Overly concerned with the details of learning

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Penury

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Poverty, destitution

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Pervasive

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Having the tendency to spread out

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Pine

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To languish and lose vigor

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Pirate

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To illegally use or reproduce

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Pith

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Central part

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Pithy

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Precise and brief

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Placate

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To appease

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Platitude

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A superficial remark

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Plummet

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To fall straight down

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Polemical

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Controversial

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Prodigal

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Wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish

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Profuse

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Coming forth abundantly

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Proliferate

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To grow or increase swiftly

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Queries

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Questions or doubts in the mind

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Querulous

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Prone to complaining; peevish

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Rancorous

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Characterized by bitter resentment

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Recalcitrant

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Defiant, difficult to manage

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Repudiate

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To disown, refuse to have anything to do with

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Rescind

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To invalidate, repeal, or retract

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Reverent

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Profound awe and respect

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Rhetoric

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The art or study of effect use of language

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Salubrious

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Promoting health or well-being

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Solvent

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Able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance

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Specious

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Seemingly true but actually false

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Spurious

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False, counterfeit, invalid

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Subpoena

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A court order requiring testimony

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Succinct

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Brief, concise

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Superfluous

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Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary

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Surfeit

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Excess of supply

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Tenacity

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Persistent determination

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Tenuous

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Flimsy, weak

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Tirade

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Long, harsh, critical speech or denunciation

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Transient

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Fleeting, changing over time, brief

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Zealous

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Fervent, ardent, impassioned, devoted to a cause