Beyond the Hit Parade Group 1 Flashcards
Alloy Part of Speech
Verb
Appropriate Part of Speech
Verb
Arrest[ing] Part of Speech
Adj
Verb
August Part of Speech
Adj
Bent Part of Speech
Noun
Alloy
To commingle
To debase by mixing with something inferior
(Unalloyed = pure)
Appropriate
To take for one’s own use
To confiscate
Arrest[ing]
To suspend
To engage
Holding one’s attention as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait
August
Majestic, venerable
Bent
Leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency
Broach Part of Speech
Verb
Brook Part of Speech
Verb
Cardinal Part of Speech
Adj
Chauvinist Part of Speech
Noun
Color Part of Speech
Verb
Consequential Part of Speech
Adj
Damp Part of Speech
Verb
Die Part of Speech
Noun
Essay Part of Speech
Verb
Exact Part of Speech
Verb
Fell Part of Speech
Verb
Adj
Flag Part of Speech
Verb
Flip Part of Speech
Adj
Ford Part of Speech
Verb
Grouse Part of Speech
Verb
Guy Part of Speech
Noun
Intimate Part of Speech
Verb
Lumber Part of Speech
Verb
Meet Part of Speech
Adj
Milk Part of Speech
Verb
Mince Part of Speech
Verb
Nice Part of Speech
Adj
Occult Part of Speech
Adj
Pedestrian Part of Speech
Adj
Pied Part of Speech
Adj
Pine Part of Speech
Verb
Plastic Part of Speech
Adj
Pluck Part of Speech
Noun
Prize Part of Speech
Verb
Rail Part of Speech
Verb
Broach
To bring up
To announce
To begin to talk about
Brook
To tolerate
To endure
To countenance
Cardinal
Major, as in cardinal sin
Chauvinist
A blindly devoted patriot
Color
To change is if by dyeing
To distort, gloss, or affect (usually the first)
Consequential
Pompous, self-important
Logically following
Important
Damp
To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound
Die
A tool used for shaping
Essay
To test or try
To attempt
To experiment
Exact
To demand
To call for
To require
To take
Fell (verb)
To cause to fall by striking
Fell (adj)
Inhumanly cruel
Flag
To sag or droop
To become spiritless
To decline
Flip
Sarcastic, impertinent
Ford
To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream
Grouse
To complain or grumble
Guy
A rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide
To steady or reinforce using a guy
Intimate
To imply, suggest, or insinuate
List
To tilt or lean to one side
Lumber
To move heavily and clumsily
Meet
Fitting, proper
Milk
To exploit
To squeeze every last ounce of
Mince
To pronounce or speak affectedly
To euphemism, to speak too carefully
Take tiny steps
To tiptoe
Nice
Exacting, fastidious, extremely precise
Occult
Hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
Pedestrian
Commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian
Pied
Multicolored, usually in blotches
Pine
To lose vigor (through grief)
To yearn
Plastic
Moldable, pliable, not rigid
Pluck
Courage, spunk, fortitude
Prize
To pry, to press or force with a lever
Something taken by force, spoils
Rail
To complain about bitterly
Rent Part of Speech
Verb
Quail Part of Speech
Verb
Qualify Part of Speech
Verb
Sap Part of Speech
Verb
Noun
Scurvy Part of Speech
Adj
Singular Part of Speech
Adj
Stand Part of Speech
Noun
Steep Part of Speech
Verb
Strut Part of Speech
Noun
Table Part of Speech
Verb
Tender Part of Speech
Verb
Waffle Part of Speech
Verb
Wag Part of Speech
Noun
Rent
Torn
An opening or tear caused by such
Quail
To lose courage
To turn frightened
Qualify
To limit
Sap (verb)
To enervate or weaken the vitality of
Sap (noun)
A fool or nitwit
Scurvy
Contemptible, despicable
Singular
Exceptional, unusual, odd
Stand
A group of trees
Steep
To saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep
Strut
The supporting structural cross-part of a wing
Table
To remove from consideration
Tender
To proffer or offer
Waffle
To equivocate
To change one’s position
Wag
Wit, joker
