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Beyond the Hit Parade Group #1 Flashcards

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Appropriate

Verb

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To take for one’s own use; to confiscate

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Alloy

Verb

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To commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; “unalloyed” means pure

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Arrest (Verb)

Arresting (Adj.)

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To suspend; to engage; holding one’s attention: as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait

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August

Adj.

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Majestic, venerable

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Bent

Noun

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Leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

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Broach

Verb

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To bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about

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Brook

Verb

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To tolerate; to endure; to countenance

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Cardinal

Adj.

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Major, as in cardinal sin

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Chauvinist

Noun

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A blindly devoted patriot

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Color

Verb

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To change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss, or affect (usually the first)

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Consequential

Adj.

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Pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following; important)

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Damp

Verb

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To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound

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Die

Noun

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A tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop

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Essay

Verb

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A test or try; to attempt; to experiment

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Exact

Verb

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To demand; to call for; to require; to take

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Fell

Verb

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To cause to fall by striking

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Fell

Adj.

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Inhumanly cruel

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Flag

Verb

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To sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline

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Flip

Adj.

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Sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark

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Ford

Verb

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To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

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Grouse

Verb

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To complain or grumble

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Guy

Noun

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A rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: Think “guide”

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Intimate

Verb

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To imply, suggest, or insinuate

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List

Verb

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To tilt or lean to one side

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Lumber

Verb

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To move heavily and clumsily

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Meet

Adj.

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Fitting, proper

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Milk

Verb

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To exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of

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Mince

Verb

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To pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize to speak too carefully. Also, to take tiny steps; to tiptoe

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Nice

Adj.

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Exacting, fastidious, extremely precise

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Obtain

Adj.

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To be established, accepted, or customary

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Occult

Adj.

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Hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

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Pedestrian

Adj.

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Commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian

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Pied

Adj.

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Multicolored, usually in blotches

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Pine

Verb

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To lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn

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Plastic

Adj.

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Moldable, pliable, not rigid

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Pluck

Noun

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Courage, spunk, fortitude

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Prize

Verb

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To pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils

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Rail

Verb

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To complain about bitterly

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Rent

Verb

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Torn (past tense of rend); an opening or tear causes by such

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Quail

Verb

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To lose courage; to turn frightened

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Qualify

Verb

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To limit

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Sap

Verb

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To enervate or weaken the vitality of

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Sap

Noun

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A fool or nitwit

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Scurvy

Adj.

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Contemptible, despicable

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Singular

Adj.

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Exceptional, unusual, odd

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Stand

Noun

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A group of trees

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Steep

Verb

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To saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep

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Strut

Noun

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The supporting structural cross-part of a wing

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Table

Verb

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To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration

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Tender

Verb

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To proffer or offer

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Waffle

Verb

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To equivocate; to change one’s position

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Wag

Noun

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Wit, joker

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