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Beyond the Hit Parade Group #2 Flashcards

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Adumbrate

Verb

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

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Abjure

Verb

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To renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

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Anathema

Noun

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a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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Anodyne

Adj.)/(Noun

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soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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Apogee

Noun

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farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

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Apostate

Noun

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one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

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Apotheosis

Noun

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

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Asperity

Noun

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severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony; irritability

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Asseverate

Verb

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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

Noun

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omen, portent

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Bellicose

Adj.

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belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

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Calumniate

Verb

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to slander, to make a false accusation; “calumny” means slander, aspersion

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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

Verb

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to find fault without good reason

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Celerity

Noun

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speed, alacrity; think “accelerate”

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Chimera

Noun

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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

Noun

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rout, fiasco, complete failure

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Denouement

Noun

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an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

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Descry

Verb

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to discriminate or discern

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Desuetude

Noun

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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.

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reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence

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Dirge

Noun

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a song of grief or lamentation

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Encomium

Noun

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glowing and enthusiactic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

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Eschew

Verb

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to shun or avoid

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Excoriate

Verb

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to censure scathingly, to upbraid

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Execrate

Verb

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to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil

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Exegesis

Noun

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critical examination, explication

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Expiate

Verb

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to atone or make amends for

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Extirpate

Verb

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to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind

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Fatuous

Adj.

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silly, inanely foolish

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Fractious

Adj.

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quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

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Gainsay

Verb

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to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose

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Heterodox

Adj.

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unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

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Imbroglio

Noun

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difficult or embarrassing situation

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Indefatigable

Adj.

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not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged

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Ineluctable

Adj.

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certain, inevitable

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Inimitable

Adj.

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one of a kind, peerless

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Insouciant

Adj.

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unconcerned, carefree, heedless

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Inveterate

Adj.

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deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

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Jejune

Adj.

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vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile

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Lubricious

Adj.

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lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

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Mendicant

Noun

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a beggar, supplicant

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Meretricious

Adj.

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cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show

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Minatory

Adj.

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menacing, threatening (reminds you of the Minotaur, a threatening creature indeed)

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Nadir

Noun

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low point, perigee

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Nonplussed

Adj.

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baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

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Obstreperous

Adj.

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Noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

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Ossified

Adj.

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tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone

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Palliate

Verb

A

to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense

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Panegyric

Noun

A

formal praise, eulogy, encomium; “Panegyrical” means expressing elaborate praise

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Parsimonious

Adj.

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cheap, miserly

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Pellucid

Adj.

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transparent, easy to understand, limpid

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Peroration

Noun

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the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

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Plangent

Adj.

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pounding, thundering, resounding

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Prolix

Adj.

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long-winded, verbose; “Prolixity” means verbosity

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Propitiate

Verb

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to appease; to conciliate; “Propitious” means auspicious, favorable

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Puerile

Adj.

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childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

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Puissance

Noun

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power, strength; “Puissant” means powerful, strong

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Pusillanimous

Adj.

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cowardly, craven

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Remonstrate

Verb

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to protest, to object

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Sagacious

Adj.

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having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage

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Salacious

Adj.

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lustful, lascivious, bawdy

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Salutary

Adj.

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remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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Sanguine

Adj.

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cheerful, confident, optimistic

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Saturnine

Adj.

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gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

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Sententious

Adj.

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aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively

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Stentorian

Adj.

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extremely loud and powerful

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Stygian

Adj.

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gloomy, dark

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Sycophant

Noun

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toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite

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Tendentious

Adj.

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biased; showing marked tendencies

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Timorous

Adj.

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timid, fearful, diffident

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Tyro

Noun

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novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

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Vitiate

Verb

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to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective

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Voluble

Adj.

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fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language

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