Hit Parade Flashcards
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enervate
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to weaken
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fulminate
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to loudly attack or denounce
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noxious
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harmful; injurious
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obviate
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to anticipate or make unnecesary
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paean
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song or hymn of praise or thankfulness
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perspication
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acutely perceptive
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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 to happen before anticipated or required
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relegate
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to forcibly assign, especially to a lower place or position
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stymie
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to block; to thwart
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truculent
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fierce and cruel; eager to fight
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virulent
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extremelyl harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic
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burgeon
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to grow rapidly or flourish
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chary
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wary; cautious; sparing
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demure
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question or oppose
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didactic
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intended to teach or instruct
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dogmatic
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expressing a rigid opinion based on unproved or improvable principles
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emollient
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soothing, especially to the skin; making less harsh; an agent that softens the skin
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ephemeral
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brief; fleeting
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impecunious
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lacking funds; without money
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inveigle
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to obtain by deception or flattery
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penurious
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penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous
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quiescence
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stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest
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redoubtable
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awe-inspiring; worthy of honor
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aver
to state as fact; to declare or assert
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evanescent
tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing
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halcyon
calm and peaceful
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mendacity
the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty
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opprobrium
disgrace; contempt; scorn
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pedagogy
the profession or principles of teaching, or instructing
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pith
the essential or central part
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prodigal
recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
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salubrious
promoting health or well-being
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astringent
having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe;
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credulous
tending to believe too readily; gullible (noun form: credulity)
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dilettante
one with an amatuerish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge
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imminent
about to happen; impending
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inimical
damaging; harmful; injurious
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mercurial
characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood
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phlegmatic
calm; sluggish; unemotional
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probity
adherence to highest principles; complete and confirmed integrity; uprightness
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prosaic
dull; lacking in spirit or imagination
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quotidian
occurring or recurring daily; commonplace
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recondite
hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure
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refulgent
radiant; shiny; brilliant
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sedulous
diligent; persistent; hard-working
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trenchant
sharply perceptive; keen ; penetrating
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variagated
multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different color
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vituperate
to use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severly or abusively; berate
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alloy (verb)
to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; "unalloyed" means pure
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consequential (alternate meaning)
pompous, self-important
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essay
to test or try; to attempt; to experiment
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fell (verb)
to cause to fall by striking
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fell (adj)
inhumanly cruel
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mince
to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize, to speak to carefully. Also to take tiny steps; to tiptoe
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pied
multicolored, usually in blotches
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pluck
courage, spunk, fortitude
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adumbrate
to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow
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anodyne
soothing; something that assuages or allays pain, or comforts
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apotheosis
deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection
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asperity
severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability
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asservate
to aver, allege, or assert
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calumniate
to slander, to make a false accusation; "calumny" means slander, aspersion
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captious
disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument
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cavil
to find fault without good reason
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contumacious
insubordinate, rebellious; "contumely" means insult, scorn, aspersion
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descry
to discriminate or discern
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desuetude
disuse
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desultory
random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose
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diaphanous
transparent, gauzy
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encomium
glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy
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execrate
to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil
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exegesis
critical examination, explication
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expiate
to atone or make amends for
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extirpate
to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind
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heterodox
unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic
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imbroglio
difficult or embarrasing situation
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ineluctable
certain, inevitable
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inimitable
one of a kind, peerless
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jejune
vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile
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lubrication
lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
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meretricious
cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show
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minatory
menacing, threatening (reminds you of the minotaur, a threatening creature)
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nadir
low point, perigee
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panegyric
formal praise, eulogy, encomium; "panegyrical" means expressing elaborate praise
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pellucid
transparent, easy to understand, limpid
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peroration
the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech
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plangent
pounding, thundering, resounding
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prolix
long-winded, verbose; "prolixity" means verbosity
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puissance
power, strength; "puissant" means powerful, strong
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salutary
remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
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sanguine
cheerful, confident, optimistic
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saturnine
gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
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sententious
aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralze excessively
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stentorian
extremely loud and powerful
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stygian
gloomy, dark
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tendentious
biased; showing marked tendencies
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vitiate
to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective
