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Beyond the Hit Parade Group 1 Flashcards

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(verb)
to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior

(E) unalloyed means pure

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Alloy

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(verb)

to take for one’s own use; to confiscate

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Appropriate

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(verb/adj.)

to suspend; to engage; holding one’s attention

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Arrest

(E) an arrested adolescence; an arresting portrait

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(adj.)

majestic, venerable

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August

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(noun)

leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

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Bent

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(verb)

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

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Broach

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(verb)

to tolerate; to endure; to countenance

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Brook

(E) will not brook insults from my own employees

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(adj.)

major

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Cardinal

(E) cardinal sin

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(noun)

a blindly devoted patriot; undue partiality or attachment to a group or place to which one belongs or has belonged

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Chauvinist

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(verb)

to change as if by dyeing, ie. to distort, gloss or affect

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Color

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(adj.)

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

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Consequential

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(verb)

to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound

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Damp

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(noun)

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

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Die

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(verb)

to test or try; to attempt; to experiment

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Essay

(E) need to run a few laps before essaying on a sprint

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(verb)

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

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Exact

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(adj.)

to cause to fall by striking

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Fell

(E) felled by a heart attack; to fell a tree

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(verb)

to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline

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Flag

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(adj.)

inhumanly cruel

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Fell

(E) a fell purpose; a fell disease

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(verb)

to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

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Ford

(E) weren’t sure if the river was fordable

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(verb)

to complain or grumble

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Grouse

(E) grousing about her work environment

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(verb)

to imply, suggest or insinuate

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Intimate

(E) trying to intimate there was more going on than anyone knew

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(verb)

to tilt or lean to one side

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List

(E) they wanted to list the ship towards the dock

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(verb)

to move heavily and clumsily

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Lumber

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(adj.)

fitting, proper

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Meet

(E) seems like a meet solution

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(verb)

to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of

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Milk

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(verb)

to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize, to speak too carefully

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Mince

(E) minced no words in stating his dislike

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(adj.)

exacting, fastidious/particular, extremely precise

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Nice

(E) too nice a palate to enjoy junk food

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(adj.)

commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian

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Pedestrian

(E) a performance too pedestrian for such an audience

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(adj.)

multicolored, usually in blotches

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Pied

(E) the pied coat of the horse

30
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(verb)

to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn

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Pine

(E) still pined after their lost wealth

31
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(adj.)

moldable, pliable, not rigid

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Plastic

32
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(noun)

courage, spink, fortitude

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Pluck

(E) it takes pluck to do what she did

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(verb)

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

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Prize

(E) to prize it out of her hands

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(verb)

to complain about bitterly

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Rail

(E) kept railing about her last relationship

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(verb)

torn (past tense of rend); an opening or tear caused by such

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Rent

(E) have to rent the clams open

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(verb)

to lose courage; to turn frightened

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Quail

(E) her courage never quailed

37
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(verb)

to limit

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Qualify

38
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(verb)

to enervate or weaken the vitality of

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Sap

(E) sap the life out of him

39
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(noun)

a fool or nitwit

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Sap

(E) sappy lovesongs

40
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(noun)

a rope, cord or cable attached to something as a brace or guide

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Guy

(E) they wanted to guy the posts with braces

41
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(adj.)

despicable, contemptible

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Scurvy

(E) despicable scurvy me

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(adj.)

exceptional, unusual, odd

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Singular

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(noun)

a group of trees

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Stand

(E) let’s go by the stand over there

44
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(noun)

the supporting structural cross-part of a wing

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Strut

45
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(verb)

to remove from consideration

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Table

(E) find a way to table the motion

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(verb)

to proffer or offer

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Tender

47
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(verb)

to equivocate; to change one’s position

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Waffle

(E) waffled on the important issues

48
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(noun)

wit, joker

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Wag

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