Hit parade 2

Question 1

Abate

Answer 1

To lessen in intensity or degree

Question 2

Accolade

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Expression of praise

Question 3

Adulation

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Excessive pride; Intense adoration

Question 4

Aesthetic

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Dealing with/appreciative of or responseful to art/beauty

Question 5

Ameliorate

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To make better

Question 6

Ascetic

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

Question 7

Avarice

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Greed, for wealth

Question 8

Burgeon

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Flourish

Question 9

Bucolic

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Rural and pastoral, charactaristic of rural areas and their inhabitants

Question 10

Cacaphony

Answer 10

Harsh, jarring sound, dissonance

Question 11

Canon

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Established set of laws

Question 12

Castigation

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Severe punishment

Question 13

Catalyst

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Accelerate change of cause of change

Question 14

Caustic

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Burning or stinging (causing corrosion)

Question 15

Chary

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Wary, cautious

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Cogent

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Appealing forcibly to the mind or reason, convinving

Question 17

Complaisence

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Willingness to comply with the wishes of others

Question 18

Contentious

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Quarrelsome, argumentative

Question 19

Contrite

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Regretful, pertinent, seeking forgiveness

Question 20

Culpable

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Deserving blame

Question 21

Dearth

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Scarcity, low quantity, a lack

Question 22

Demur

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To question or oppose

Question 23

Didactic

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Intented to teach/to instruct

Question 24

Discretion

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cautious reserve in speech, ability to make responsible decisions

Question 25

Disinterested

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Free of bias or self interest

Question 26

Dogmatic

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Expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved/improvable principles

Question 27

Ebullience

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quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings

Question 28

Eclectic

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Composed of various sources

Question 29

Elegy

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Mournful poem , lamenting the dead

Question 30

Emollient

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Soothing (to the skin) Making less harsh Mollifying

Question 31

Empirical

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Based on observation or experiment

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Enigmatic

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Mysterious, difficult to understand, obscure

Question 33

Ephemeral

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Brief, fleeting

Question 34

Esoteric

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Intended to be understood by a small specific group

Question 35

Eulogy

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Speech honoring the dead

Question 36

Exonerate

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To remove the blame

Question 37

Facetious

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Playful, humorous

Question 38

Fallacy

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Invalid or incorrect notion, mistaken belief

Question 39

Furtive

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Marked by stealth

Question 40

Gregarious

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Sociable, outgoing

Question 41

Harangue

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A long pompous speech

Question 42

Herectical

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Violating dogma or convention

Question 43

Hyperbole

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An exaggerated statement

Question 44

Impecunious

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Lacking funds, no money

Question 45

Incipient

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Beginning to come into being or to become apparent

Question 46

Inert

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Unmoving, lethargic

Question 47

Innocuous

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Harmless

Question 48

Intransigent

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Refusing to compromise

Question 49

Inveigl

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To obtain by deception or flattery

Question 50

Morose

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Sad, sullen, Melancholy

Question 51

Odious

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Evoking intense aversion or dislike

Question 52

Opaque

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Impenetrable by light/ not reflecting light

Question 53

Oscillation

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

Question 54

Penurious

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Penny pinching, excessively thrifty/ ungenerous

Question 55

Pernicious

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Extremely harmful, potentially causing death

Question 56

Peruse

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To examine with great care

Question 57

Pious

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Extremely reverent (religious) or devout

Question 58

Precursor

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On that precedes or announces another

Question 59

Preen

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

Question 60

Prodigious

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Abundant in size, extraordinary

Question 61

Prolific

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Producing in large volumes or amounts/ productive

Question 62

Putrefy

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

Question 63

Quaff

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To drink deeply

Question 64

Quiescence

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Stillness, motionless, quality of being at rest

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Redoutable

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Awe inspiring, worthy of honor

Question 66

Sanction

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Authoritative permission or approuval , penalty intended to enforce compliance

Question 67

Satire

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

Question 68

Squalid

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

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Stoic

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Indifferent or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast

Question 70

Supplant

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Replace/ take the place of

Question 71

Torpid

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Lethargic, sluggish, dormant

Question 72

Ubiquitous

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Existing everywhere at the same time, widespread

Question 73

Urbane

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Sophisticated, refined, elegant

Question 74

Vilify

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To defame; to characterize harshly

Question 75

Viscous

Answer 75

Thick, sticky