Beyond the Hit Parade Group 1 Flashcards
(verb)
to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior
(E) unalloyed means pure
Alloy
(verb)
to take for one’s own use; to confiscate
Appropriate
(verb/adj.)
to suspend; to engage; holding one’s attention
Arrest
(E) an arrested adolescence; an arresting portrait
(adj.)
majestic, venerable
August
(noun)
leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency
Bent
(verb)
to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about
Broach
(verb)
to tolerate; to endure; to countenance
Brook
(E) will not brook insults from my own employees
(adj.)
major
Cardinal
(E) cardinal sin
(noun)
a blindly devoted patriot; undue partiality or attachment to a group or place to which one belongs or has belonged
Chauvinist
(verb)
to change as if by dyeing, ie. to distort, gloss or affect
Color
(adj.)
pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following, important)
Consequential
(verb)
to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound
Damp
(noun)
a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop
Die
(verb)
to test or try; to attempt; to experiment
Essay
(E) need to run a few laps before essaying on a sprint
(verb)
to demand; to call for; to require; to take
Exact
(adj.)
to cause to fall by striking
Fell
(E) felled by a heart attack; to fell a tree
(verb)
to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline
Flag
(adj.)
inhumanly cruel
Fell
(E) a fell purpose; a fell disease
(verb)
to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream
Ford
(E) weren’t sure if the river was fordable
(verb)
to complain or grumble
Grouse
(E) grousing about her work environment
(verb)
to imply, suggest or insinuate
Intimate
(E) trying to intimate there was more going on than anyone knew
(verb)
to tilt or lean to one side
List
(E) they wanted to list the ship towards the dock
(verb)
to move heavily and clumsily
Lumber
(adj.)
fitting, proper
Meet
(E) seems like a meet solution
(verb)
to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of
Milk
(verb)
to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize, to speak too carefully
Mince
(E) minced no words in stating his dislike
(adj.)
exacting, fastidious/particular, extremely precise
Nice
(E) too nice a palate to enjoy junk food
(adj.)
commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian
Pedestrian
(E) a performance too pedestrian for such an audience
(adj.)
multicolored, usually in blotches
Pied
(E) the pied coat of the horse
(verb)
to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn
Pine
(E) still pined after their lost wealth
(adj.)
moldable, pliable, not rigid
Plastic
(noun)
courage, spink, fortitude
Pluck
(E) it takes pluck to do what she did
(verb)
to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils
Prize
(E) to prize it out of her hands
(verb)
to complain about bitterly
Rail
(E) kept railing about her last relationship
(verb)
torn (past tense of rend); an opening or tear caused by such
Rent
(E) have to rent the clams open
(verb)
to lose courage; to turn frightened
Quail
(E) her courage never quailed
(verb)
to limit
Qualify
(verb)
to enervate or weaken the vitality of
Sap
(E) sap the life out of him
(noun)
a fool or nitwit
Sap
(E) sappy lovesongs
(noun)
a rope, cord or cable attached to something as a brace or guide
Guy
(E) they wanted to guy the posts with braces
(adj.)
despicable, contemptible
Scurvy
(E) despicable scurvy me
(adj.)
exceptional, unusual, odd
Singular
(noun)
a group of trees
Stand
(E) let’s go by the stand over there
(noun)
the supporting structural cross-part of a wing
Strut
(verb)
to remove from consideration
Table
(E) find a way to table the motion
(verb)
to proffer or offer
Tender
(verb)
to equivocate; to change one’s position
Waffle
(E) waffled on the important issues
(noun)
wit, joker
Wag
