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Beyond the Hit Parade Group 2 Flashcards

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Abjure

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to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

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Adumbrate

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

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Anathema

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

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Anodyne

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soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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Apogee

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farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

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Apostate

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one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

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Apotheosis

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

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Asperity

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severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability

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Asseverate

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to aver, allege, or assert

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Assiduous

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diligent, hard-working, sedulous

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Augury

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omen, portent

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Bellicose

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belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

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Culminate

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

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Captious

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disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

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Cavil

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to find fault without good reason

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Celerity

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speed, alacrity; think accelerate

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Chimera

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an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

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Contumacious

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insubordinate, rebellious; contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion

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Debacle

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rout, fiasco, complete failure

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Denouement

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an outcome of solution; the unraveling of a plot

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Descry

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to discriminate or discern

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Desuetude

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disuse

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Desultory

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random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

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Diaphanous

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transparent, gauzy

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Diffident

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reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence

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Dirge

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a song of grief or lamentation

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Encomium

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glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

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Eschew

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to shun or avoid

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Excoriate

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to censure scathingly, to upbraid

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Execrate

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

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Exegesis

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critical examination, explication

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Expiate

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to atone or make amends for

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Extirpate

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

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Fatuous

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silly, inanely foolish

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Fractious

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quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

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Gainsay

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to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose

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Heterdox

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unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

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Imbroglio

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difficult or embarrassing situation

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Indefatigable

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not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged

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Ineluctable

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certain, inevitable

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Inimitable

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one of a kind, peerless

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Insouciant

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unconcerned, carefree, heedless

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Inveterate

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deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

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Jejune

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vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish

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Lubricious

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lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

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Mendicant

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a beggar, supplicant

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Meretricious

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

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Minatory

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

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Nadir

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low point, perigee

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Nonplussed

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

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Obstreperous

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noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

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Ossified

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

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Palliate

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

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Panegyric

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formal praise, eulogy, encomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise

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Parsimonious

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cheap, miserly

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Pellucid

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transparent, easy to understand, limpid

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Peroration

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the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

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Plangent

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pounding, thundering, resounding

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Prolix

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long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbosity

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Propitiate

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to appease; to conciliate; propitious means auspicious, favorable

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Puerile

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childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

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Puissance

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power, strength; puissant means powerful, strong

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Pusillanimous

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cowardly, craven

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Remonstrate

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to protest, to object

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Sagacious

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having sound judgement; perceptive, wise; like a sage

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Salacious

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lustful, lascivious, bawdy

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Salutary

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remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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Sanguine

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cheerful, confident, optimistic

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Saturnine

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gloomy, dark, sullen morose

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Sententious

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aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic

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Stentorian

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extremely loud and powerful

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Stygian

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gloomy, dark

73
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Sycophant

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toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite

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Tendentious

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biased; showing marked tendencies

75
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Timorous

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timid, fearful, diffident

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Tyro

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novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

77
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Vitiate

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to corrupt, to debase, to spoil to make ineffective

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Voluble

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fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language

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