Hit Parade #1 Flashcards
Abscond
to depart clandestinely; to depart secretly
Aberrant
Deviating from the norm
Alacrity
Eager and enthusiastic willingness
Anomaly
Deviation from the normal order, form or rule
Approbation
An expression of approval or praise
Arduous
Strenuous; taxing; requiring significant effort
Assuage
To ease or lessen; to relieve; to appease or pacify
Audacious
Daring and fearless; recklessly bold
Austere
Without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic
Axiomatic
Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
Canonical
Following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards
Capricious
inclined to change one’s mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable
Censure
To criticize severely; to officially rebuke
Chicanery
Trickery and subterfuge
Connoisseur
an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert
Convoluted
Complex or complicated
Disabuse
to undeceive; to set right
Discordant
Conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound
Disparate
Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
Effrontery
Extreme boldness; presumptuousness
Eloquent
well-spoken; expressive; articulate
Enervate
To weaken
Ennui
Dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredome
Equivocate
To use ambiguous language with deceptive intent
Erudite
educated; scholarly
Exculpate
free from blame
Exigent
urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action
Extemporaneous
Improvised
Filibuster
intentional obstruction to delay legislation
Fulminate
to loudly attack or denounce
Ingenuous
artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication
Inured
accustomed to accepting something undesirable
Irascible
easily angered; prone to temperamental outburts
Laud
to praise highly
Lucid
Clear; easily understood
Magnanimity
the quality of being generously noble and forgiving
Martial
Associated with war and the armed forces
Mundane
of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary
Nascent
in early developmental stages; coming into being
Nebulous
vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form
Neologism
a new word, expression, or usage; the creation of new use of words
Noxious
Harmful; injurious
Obtuse
lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression
Obviate
to anticipate and make unnecessary
Onerous
troubling; burdensome
Pacan
a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving
Parody
a humorous imitation intended to ridicule
Perennial
happening repeatedly
Perfidy
intentional breach of faith; treachery
Perfunctory
done without care or interest
Perspicacious
acutely perceptive; having keen discernment
Prattle
to babble meaninglessly
Precipitate
acting with excessive haste or impulse; to cause of happen before anticipated or required
Predilection
preference
Prescience
knowing of events prior to their occurring
Prevaricate
to deliberately avoid the truth
Qualms
misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy
Recant
to retract, especially a previously held belief
Refute
to dispute; to successfully argue a point
Reticent
quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings
Relegate
to forcibly assign, especially to a lower place or position
Solicitous
concerned and attentive; eager
Sordid
characterized by filth, grime, or squalor
Sporadic
occurring only occasionally
Squander
to waste by spending or using irresponibly
Static
at rest; not moving, active or in motion
Stupefy
to stun, baffle, or amaze
Stymie
to block; to thwart
Synthesis
the combination of parts to make a whole
Torque
a force that causes rotation
Tortuous
winding, twisting; excessively complicated
Truculent
fierce and cruel; eager to fight
Veracity
Truthfulness; honesty
Virulent
Extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic
Voracious
ravenous; having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit
Waver
to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion
