Hit Parade 1 Flashcards

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Abscond

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To depart secretly

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Aberrant

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Deviating from the norm

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Alacrity

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Eager and enthusiastic willingness

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Anomaly

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Abnormality

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Approbation

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An expression of approval or praise

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Arduous

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Strenuous, requiring significant effort

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Assuage

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To ease or lessen

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Audacious

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Daring and fearless; recklessly bold

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Austere

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Bare or simple

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Axiomatic

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Taken as a given

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Canonical

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Following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards

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Capricious

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Inclined to change one’s mind impulsively; unpredictable

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Censure

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To criticize severely

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Chicanery

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Trickery

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Connoisseur

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An expert

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Convoluted

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Complex or complicated

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Disabuse

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To undeceive; set right

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Discordant

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Conflicting; harsh in sound

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Disparate

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Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar

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Effrontery

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Extreme boldness

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Eloquent

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Well-spoken

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Enervate

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To weaken

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Ennui

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Dissatisfaction or restlessness from boredom

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Equivocate

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To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent

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Erudite

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Very learned; scholarly

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Exculpate

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Exonerate; to clear of blame

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Exigent

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Urgent

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Extemporaneous

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Improvised

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Filibuster

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Intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action

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Fulminate

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To loudly attack or denounce

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Ingenuous

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Frank and candid; lacking in sophistication

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Inured

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Accustomed to accepting something undesirable

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Irascible

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Easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts

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Laud

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To praise highly

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Lucid

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Clear; easily understood

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Magnanimity

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The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving

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Martial

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Associated with war and the armed forces

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Mundane

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Of the world; typical of the ordinary

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Nascent

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In early developmental stages

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Nebulous

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Vague; cloudy

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Neologism

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A new word, expression, or usage

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Noxious

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Harmful

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Obtuse

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Not clear or precise in thought or expression

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Obviate

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To anticipate and make unnecessary

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Onerous

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Troubling; burdensome

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Paean

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A song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving

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Parody

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A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect

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Perennial

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Happening repeatedly

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Perfidy

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Treachery

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Perfunctory

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Done without care or interest

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Perspicacious

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Acutely perceptive

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Prattle

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To babble meaninglessly

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Precipitate (adj)

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Acting with excessive haste or impulse

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Precipitate (verb)

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To cause or happen before anticipated or required

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Predilection

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A preference

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Prescience

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Foreknowledge of events

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Prevaricate

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To deliberately avoid the truth; mislead

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Qualms

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Causes for hesitancy

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Recant

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To retract, esp. a previously held belief

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Refute

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To disprove; successfully argue against

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Relegate

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To forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position

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Reticent

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Quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings

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Solicitous

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Concerned and attentive; eager

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Sordid

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Foul; filthy or grimey

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Sporadic

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Occurring only occasionally, in scattered instances

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Squander

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To waste by spending or using irresponsibly

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Static

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Not moving or active

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Stupefy

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To stun, baffle, or amaze

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Stymie

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To block; thwart

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Synthesis

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The combination of parts to make a whole

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Torque

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A force that causes rotation

72
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Tortuous

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Winding, twisting; excessively complicated

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Truculent

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Fierce and cruel; eager to fight

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Veracity

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Truthfulness, honesty

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Virulent

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Extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic

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Voracious

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Ravenous; having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit

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Waver

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To sway; be unsettled in opinion