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Hit parade 2 Flashcards

1
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Abate

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To lessen in intensity or degree

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Accolade

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Expression of praise

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Adulation

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Excessive pride; Intense adoration

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Aesthetic

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Dealing with/appreciative of or responseful to art/beauty

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Ameliorate

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To make better

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Ascetic

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One who practices self denial (ie. Ghandi) - esp religious devotion

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Avarice

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Greed, for wealth

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Burgeon

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Flourish

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Bucolic

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Rural and pastoral, charactaristic of rural areas and their inhabitants

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Cacaphony

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Harsh, jarring sound, dissonance

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Canon

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Established set of laws

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12
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Castigation

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Severe punishment

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13
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Catalyst

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Accelerate change of cause of change

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14
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Caustic

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Burning or stinging (causing corrosion)

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Chary

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Wary, cautious

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Cogent

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Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason, convinving

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Complaisence

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Willingness to comply with the wishes of others

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Contentious

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Quarrelsome, argumentative

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Contrite

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Regretful, pertinent, seeking forgiveness

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20
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Culpable

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Deserving blame

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21
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Dearth

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Scarcity, low quantity, a lack

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Demur

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To question or oppose

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23
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Didactic

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Intented to teach/to instruct

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Discretion

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cautious reserve in speech, ability to make responsible decisions

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Disinterested

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Free of bias or self interest

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Dogmatic

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Expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved/improvable principles

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Ebullience

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quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings

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Eclectic

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Composed of various sources

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Elegy

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Mournful poem , lamenting the dead

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30
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Emollient

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Soothing (to the skin)
Making less harsh
Mollifying

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Empirical

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Based on observation or experiment

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Enigmatic

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Mysterious, difficult to understand, obscure

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Ephemeral

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Brief, fleeting

34
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Esoteric

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Intended to be understood by a small specific group

35
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Eulogy

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Speech honoring the dead

36
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Exonerate

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To remove the blame

37
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Facetious

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Playful, humorous

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Fallacy

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Invalid or incorrect notion, mistaken belief

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Furtive

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Marked by stealth

40
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Gregarious

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Sociable, outgoing

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Harangue

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A long pompous speech

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Herectical

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Violating dogma or convention

43
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Hyperbole

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An exaggerated statement

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Impecunious

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Lacking funds, no money

45
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Incipient

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Beginning to come into being or to become apparent

46
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Inert

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Unmoving, lethargic

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Innocuous

48
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Intransigent

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Refusing to compromise

49
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Inveigl

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To obtain by deception or flattery

50
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Morose

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Sad, sullen, Melancholy

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Odious

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Evoking intense aversion or dislike

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Opaque

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Impenetrable by light/ not reflecting light

53
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Oscillation

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Act or state of moving back and forth with a steady uninterrupted rhythm

54
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Penurious

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Penny pinching, excessively thrifty/ ungenerous

55
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Pernicious

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Extremely harmful, potentially causing death

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Peruse

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To examine with great care

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Pious

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Extremely reverent (religious)
or devout

58
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Precursor

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On that precedes or announces another

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Preen

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To dress up, to pimp, to groom onself with elaborate care

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Prodigious

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Abundant in size, extraordinary

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Prolific

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Producing in large volumes or amounts/ productive

62
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Putrefy

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To rot/ to decay give a foul odor (adjective: putrid)

63
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Quaff

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To drink deeply

64
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Quiescence

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Stillness, motionless, quality of being at rest

65
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Redoutable

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Awe inspiring, worthy of honor

66
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Sanction

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Authoritative permission or approuval , penalty intended to enforce compliance

67
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Satire

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Literary work that ridicules or critisizes a human vice through humor or derision

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Squalid

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Sordid (filth/grime), wretched and dirty as from neglect

69
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Stoic

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Indifferent or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast

70
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Supplant

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Replace/ take the place of

71
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Torpid

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Lethargic, sluggish, dormant

72
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Ubiquitous

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Existing everywhere at the same time, widespread

73
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Urbane

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Sophisticated, refined, elegant

74
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Vilify

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To defame; to characterize harshly

75
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Viscous

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Thick, sticky

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