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Princeton - Beyond the Hit Parade Group 2 Flashcards

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Adumbrate (v)

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To foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

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Abjure (v)

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To renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

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Anathema (n)

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A solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accused or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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Anodyne (adj)/(n)

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Soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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Apogee (n)

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Farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

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Apostate (n)

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One who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

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Apotheosis (n)

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Deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection

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Asperity (n)

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Severity, rigor; roughness, harshness;; acrimony, irritability

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Asseverate (v)

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To aver, allege, or assert

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Assiduous (adj)

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Diligent, hard-working, sedulous

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Augury (n)

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Omen, portent

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Bellicose (adj)

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Belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

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Calumniate (v)

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To slander, to make a false accusation

calumny means slander, aspersions

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Captious (adj)

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Disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

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Cavil (v)

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To find fault without good reason

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Celerity (n)

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Speed, alacrity

think accurate

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Chimera (n)

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An illusion

originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

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Contumacious (adj)

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Insubordinate, rebellious

contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion

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Debacle (n)

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Rout, fiasco, complete failure

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Denouement (n)

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An outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

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Descry (v)

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To discriminate or discern

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Desuetude (v)

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Disuse

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Desultory (adj)

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Random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

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Diaphanous (adj)

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Transparent, gauzy

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Diffident (adj)
Reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence
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Dirge (n)
A song of grief or lamentation
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Encomium (n)
Glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy
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Eschew (v)
To shun or avoid
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Excoriate (v)
To censure scathingly, to upbraid
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Execrate (v)
To denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil
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Exegesis (n)
Critical examination, explication
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Expiate (v)
To atone or make amends for
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Extirpate (v)
To destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind
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Fatuous (adj)
Silly, inanely foolish
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Fractious (adj)
Quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable
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Gainsay (v)
To deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose
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Heterodox (adj)
Unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic
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Imbroglio (n)
Difficult or embarrassing situation
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Indefatigable (adj)
Not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged
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Ineluctable (adj)
Certain, inevitable
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Inimitable (adj)
One of a kind, peerless
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Insouciant (adj)
Unconcerned, carefree, heedless
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Inveterate (adj)
Deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
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Jejune (adj)
Vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile
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Lubricious (adj)
Lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
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Mendicant (n)
A beggar, supplicant
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Meretricious (adj)
Cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show
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Minatory (adj)
Menacing, threatening | reminds you of Minotaur
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Nadir (n)
Low point, perigee
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Nonplussed (adj)
Baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think
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Obstreperous (adj)
Noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous
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Ossified (adj)
Tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone
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Palliate (v)
To make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense
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Panegyric (n)
Formal praise, eulogy, encomium | panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise
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Parsimonious (adj)
Cheap, miserly
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Pellucid (adj)
Transparent, easy to understand, limpid
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Peroration (n)
The concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech
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Plangent (adj)
Pounding, thundering, resounding
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Prolix (adj)
Long-winded, verbose | prolixity means verbosity
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Propitiate (v)
To appease; to conciliate | propitious means auspicious, favorable
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Puerile (adj)
Childish, immature, jejune, nugatory
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Puissance (n)
Power, strength | puissant means powerful, strong
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Pusillanimous (adj)
Cowardly, craven
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Remonstrate (v)
To protest, to object
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Sagacious (adj)
Having sound judgment; perceptive, wise | like a sage
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Salacious (adj)
Lustful, lascivious, bawdy
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Salutary (adj)
Remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
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Sanguine (adj)
Cheerful, confident, optimistic
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Saturnine (adj)
Gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
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Sententious (adj)
Aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively
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Stentorian (adj)
Extremely loud and powerful
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Stygian (adj)
Gloomy, dark
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Sycophant (n)
Toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite
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Tendentious (adj)
Biased; showing marked tendencies
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Timorous (adj)
Timid, fearful, diffident
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Tyro (n)
Novice, greenhorn, rank amateur
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Vitiate (v)
To corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective
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Voluble (adj)
Fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language

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