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Hit Parade Extra Flashcards

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Alloy

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to commingle, to debase by mixing with something inferior (unalloyed means pure)

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Appropriate

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to take for one’s own use, to confiscate

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Arrest

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to suspend, to engage, holding one’s attention

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August

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majestic, venerable

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Bent

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leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

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Broach

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to bring up, to announce, to begin to talk about

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Brook

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to tolerate, to endure

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Cardinal

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major, as in cardinal sin

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Chauvinist

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a blindly devoted patriot

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Color

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to change as if by dyeing to distort gloss or affect

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Consquential

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pompous, self important

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Damp

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to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound

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Die

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a tool used for shaping, as in a tool and die shop

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Essay

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to test or try, to attempt, to experiment

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Exact

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to demand, to call for, to require, to take (exact revenge)

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Fell

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to cause to fall by striking

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Flag

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to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline

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Flip

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sarcastic, impertinent as in flippant

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Ford

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to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

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Grouse

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to complain or grumble

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Guy

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a rope cord or cable attached to something as a brace or guide

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Intimate

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to imply, suggest or insinuate

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List

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to tilt or lean to one side

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Lumber

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to move heavily and clumsily

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Meet

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fitting, proper

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Milk

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to exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of

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Mince

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to pronounce or speak affectedly, to euphemize, to speak too carefully - also to take tiny steps, tip toe

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Nice

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exacting, fastidious, extremely precise

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Obtain

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to be established, accepted or customary

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Occult

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hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

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Pedestrian

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commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian

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Pine

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to lose vigor (as through grief) to yearn

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Plastic

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moldable pliable, not rigid

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Pluck

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courage, spunk, fortitude

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Prize

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to pry or press or force with a lever, something taken by force, spoils

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Rail

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to complain about bitterly

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Rent

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torn (past tense rend) an opening or tear caused by such

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Quail

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to lose courage, to turn frightened

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Sap

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to enervate or weaken the quality of

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Scurvy

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contemptible, despicable

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Singular

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exceptional, unusual, odd

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Stand

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a group of trees

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Steep

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to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep

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Strut

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the supporting structural cross part of a wing

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Table

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to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration

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Tender

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to proffer or offer

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Waffle

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to equivocate, to change one’s position

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Wag

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wit, joker

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Abjure

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to renounce or reject solemnly, to recant, to avoid

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Adumbrate

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to foreshadow vaguely

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Anathema

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a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse, accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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Anodyne

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soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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Apogee

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farthest or highest point, culmination, zenith

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Apostate

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one who abandons long-held religious or politically convictions

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Apothesis

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deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection

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Asperity

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severity, rigor, roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability

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Asseverate

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to aver, allege or assert

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Assiduous

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diligent, hard-working, sedulous

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Augury

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omen, portent

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Bellicose

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belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

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Calumniate

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to slander, to make a false accusation

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Captious

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disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

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Cavil

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to find fault without good reason

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Celerity

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speed, alacrity (think accelerate)

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Alacrity

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brisk and cheerful readiness

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Chimera

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an illusion (originally an imaginary fire breathing she-monster)

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Contumacious

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insubordinate, rebellious

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Contumely

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insult, scorn, aspersion

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Debacle

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rout, fiasco, complete failure

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Denouement

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an outcome or solution, unraveling of a plot

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Descry

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to discriminate or discern

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Desuetude

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disuse

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Desultory

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random, aimless, marked by a lack of plan or purpose

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Diaphanous

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transparent, gauzy

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Diffident

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reserved, shy unassuming, lacking in self-confidence

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Dirge

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a song of grief or lamentation

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Encomium

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glowing and enthusiastic praise, panegyric, tribute, eulogy

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Eschew

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to shun or avoid

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Excoriate

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to censure scathing, to upbraid

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Exercrate

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to denounce, to feel loathing for, to cure, to declare to be evil (like exorcism)

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Exegesis

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critical examination, explication

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Expiate

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to atone or make amends for

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Extirpate

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to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind

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Fatuous

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silly, inanely foolish

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Fractious

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quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

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Gainsay

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to deny, to dispute to contradict or oppose

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Heterodox

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unorthodox, heretical, inconoclastic

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Imbroglio

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difficult or embarrassing situation

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Indefatigable

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not easily exhaustible, tireless, dogged

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Inelecutable

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certain, inevitable

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Inimitable

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one of a kind, peerless

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Insouciant

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unconcerned, carefree, heedless

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Inveterate

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deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

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Jejune

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vapid, uninteresting, nugatory, childish, immature, puerile

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Lubricious

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lewd, wanton, greasy slippery

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Lewd

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crude and offensive in a sexual way

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Mendicant

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a beggar, supplicant

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Meretricious

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cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy, attracting by false show

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Minatory

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menacing threatening (like Minotaur threatening creature indeed)

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Nadir

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low point, below zenith, perigee

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Nonplussed

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baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or thing

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Obstreperous

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noisily and stubbornly defiant

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Ossified

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tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile and reactionary with age (literally = turned to bone)

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Palliate

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to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense

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Panegyric

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formal praise, eulogy

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Encomium

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Expressing elaborate praise

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Parsimonious

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cheap, miserly

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Pellucid

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transparent, easy to understand, limpid

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Peroration

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the concluding part of a speech, flowery rhetorical speech

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Plangent

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pounding, thundering, resounding

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Prolix

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long-winded, verbose

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Propitiate

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to appease, to conciliate, (propitious means auspicious, favorable)

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Puerile

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childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

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Puissance

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power, strength (puissant means powerful and strong)

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Pusillanimous

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cowardly, craven

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Remonstrate

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to protest, to object

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Sagacious

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having sound judgement, perceptive, wise like a sage

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Salutary

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remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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Sanguine

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cheerful, confident, optimistic

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Saturnine

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gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

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Sententious

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aphoristic or moralistic, epigrammatic, tending to moralize excessively

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Stentorian

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extremely loud and powerful

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Stygian

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gloomy, dark

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Sycophant

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self-seeking flatterer, toady, servile, parasite

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Tendentious

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biased, showing marked tendencies

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Timorous

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timid, fearful, diffident

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Tyro

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novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

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Vitiate

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to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective

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Voluble

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fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language

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