Beyond the Hit Parade Group 2 Flashcards by Sammi S

Abjure Part of Speech

Verb

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Adumbrate Part of Speech

Verb

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Anathema Part of Speech

Noun

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Anodyne Part of Speech

Adj

Noun

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Apogee Part of Speech

Noun

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Apostate Part of Speech

Noun

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Apotheosis Part of Speech

Noun

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Asperity Part of Speech

Noun

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Asseverate Part of Speech

Verb

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Assiduous Part of Speech

Adj

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Augury Part of Speech

Noun

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Bellicose Part of Speech

Adj

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Abjure

To renounce or reject solemnly
To recant
To avoid

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Adumbrate

To foreshadow vaguely or intimate
To suggest or outline sketchily
To obscure or overshadow

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Anathema

A solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse

Accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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Anodyne

Soothing

Something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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Apogee

Farthest or highest point
Culmination
Zenith

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Apostate

One who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

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Apotheosis

Deification
Glorification to godliness
An exalted example
A model of excellence or perfection

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Asperity

Severity, rigor
Roughness, harshness
Acrimony, irritability

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Asseverate

To aver, allege, or assert

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Assiduous

Diligent, hard-working, sedulous

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Augury

Omen, portent

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Bellicose

Belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

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Calumniate Part of Speech

Verb

Captious Part of Speech

Adj

Cavil Part of Speech

Verb

Celerity Part of Speech

Noun

Chimera Part of Speech

Noun

Contumacious Part of Speech

Adj

Debacle Part of Speech

Noun

Denouement Part of Speech

Noun

Descry Part of Speech

Verb

Desuetude Part of Speech

Noun

Desultory Part of Speech

Adj

Diaphanous Part of Speech

Adj

Diffident Part of Speech

Adj

Dirge Part of Speech

Noun

Encomium Part of Speech

Noun

Eschew Part of Speech

Verb

Excoriate Part of Speech

Verb

Execrate Part of Speech

Verb

Exegesis Part of Speech

Noun

Expiate Part of Speech

Verb

Extirpate Part of Speech

Verb

Fatuous Part of Speech

Adj

Fractious Part of Speech

Adj

Gainsay Part of Speech

Verb

Heterodox Part of Speech

Adj

Imbroglio Part of Speech

Noun

Indefatigable Part of Speech

Adj

Ineluctable Part of Speech

Adj

Inimitable Part of Speech

Adj

Calumniate

To slander, to make a false accusation

Captious

Disposed to point out trivial faults | Calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

Cavil

To find fault without good reason

Celerity

Speed, alacrity

Chimera

An illusion | Originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

Contumacious

Insubordinate, rebellious

Debacle

Rout, fiasco, complete failure

Denouement

An outcome or solution | The unraveling of a plot

Descry

To discriminate or discern

Desuetude

Disuse

Desultory

Random Aisles Marked by a lacked of plan or purpose

Diaphanous

Transparent | Gauzy

Diffident

Reserved, shy, unassuming | Lacking in self-confidence

Dirge

A song of grief or lamentation

Encomium

Glowing and enthusiastic praise | Panegyric, tribute, eulogy

Eschew

To shun or avoid

Excoriate

To censure scathingly, to upbraid

Execrate

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

Exegesis

Critical examination, explication

Expiate

To atone or make amends for

Extirpate

To destroy, to exterminate, to cut out

Fatuous

Silly, insanely foolish

Fractious

Quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

Gainsay

To deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose

Heterodox

Unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

Imbroglio

Difficult or embarrassing situation

Indefatigable

Not easily exhaustible Tireless Dogged

Ineluctable

Certain, inevitable

Inimitable

One of a kind, peerless

Insouciant Part of Speech

Adj

Inveterate Part of Speech

Adj

Jejune Part of Speech

Adj

Lubricious Part of Speech

Adj

Mendicant Part of Speech

Noun

Meretricious Part of Speech

Adj

Minatory Part of Speech

Adj

Nadir Part of Speech

Noun

Nonplussed Part of Speech

Adj

Obstreperous Part of Speech

Adj

Ossified Part of Speech

Adj

Palliate Part of Speech

Verb

Panegyric Part of Speech

Noun

Parsimonious Part of Speech

Adj

Pellucid Part of Speech

Adj

Peroration Part of Speech

Noun

Plangent Part of Speech

Adj

Prolix Part of Speech

Adj

Propitiate Part of Speech

Verb

Puerile Part of Speech

Adj

Puissance Part of Speech

Noun

Pusillanimous Part of Speech

Adj

Remonstrate Part of Speech

Verb

Sagacious Part of Speech

Adj

Salacious Part of Speech

Adj

Salutary Part of Speech

Adj

Sanguine Part of Speech

Adj

Saturnine Part of Speech

Adj

Insouciant

Unconcerned, carefree, heedless

Inveterate

Deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

Jejune

Vapid, uninteresting, nugatory | Childish, immature, puerile

Lubricious

Lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

Mendicant

A beggar, supplicant

Meretricious

Cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy | Attracting by false show

Minatory

Menacing, threatening

Nadir

Low point, perigee

Nonplussed

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

Obstreperous

Noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

Ossified

Tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age Literally, turned into bone

Palliate

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

Panegyric

Formal praise, eulogy, encomium

Parsimonious

Cheap, miserly

Pellucid

Transparent, easy to understand, limpid

Peroration

The concluding part of a speech | Flowery, rhetorical speech

Plangent

Pounding, thundering, resounding

Prolix

Long-winded, verbose

Propitiate

To appease | To conciliate

Puerile

Childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

Puissance

Power, strength

Pusillanimous

Cowardly | Craven

Remonstrate

To protest | To object

Sagacious

Having sound judgment Perceptive, wise Like a sage

Salacious

Lustful, lascivious, bawdy

Salutary

Remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

Sanguine

Cheerful, confident, optimistic

Saturnine

Gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

Sententious Part of Speech

Adj

Stentorian Part of Speech

Adj

Stygian Part of Speech

Adj

Sycophant Part of Speech

Noun

Tendentious Part of Speech

Adj

Timorous Part of Speech

Adj

Tyro Part of Speech

Noun

Vitiate Part of Speech

Verb

Voluble Part of Speech

Adj

Sententious

Aphoristic or moralistic Epigrammatic Tending to moralize excessively

Stentorian

Extremely loud and powerful

Stygian

Gloomy, dark

Sycophant

Toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer | Parasite

Tendentious

Biased | Showing marked tendencies

Timorous

Timid, fearful, diffident

Tyro

Novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

Vitiate

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

Voluble

Fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language