Hit Parade: Group 1

Question 1

abscond

Answer 1

to depart clandestinely; to steal off; to hide
“I abscond from any adult responsibilities”

“she absconded with the remaining thousand dollars”

Question 2

adversity

Answer 2

hardship or difficulty; opposition

Question 3

aggravate

Answer 3

to worsen or intensify

Question 4

arduous

Answer 4

strenuous; taxing; requiring significant effort
“keeping my eyes open during a movie at night is arduous”

an_arduous_journey

Question 5

belie

Answer 5

to give a false impression of; to misrepresent
“People on bumble belie in their profile to seem taller than they are”

Question 6

bombast

Answer 6

self-important or pompous writing or speech

Question 7

cacophony

Answer 7

harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance

“A cacophony of deafening alarm bells”

Question 8

castigation

Answer 8

severe punishment or criticism

“He was castigated for not setting a good example”

Question 9

censure

Answer 9

to criticize severely; officially rebuke

Question 10

chicanery

Answer 10

trickery or subterfuge
“politicians use chicanery to trick voters into supporting them”

“an underhanded person who schemes corruption and political chicanery behind closed doors”

“The opprobrium associated with political chicanery”

Question 11

coercive

Answer 11

serving or intended to compel by force or authority

Question 12

condemn

Answer 12

to blame or denounce

Question 13

conspire

Answer 13

to secretly work together with the intent to commit a wrong or illegal act

Question 14

covert

Answer 14

hidden; clandestine

Question 15

cower

Answer 15

to shrink in fear; to cringe

Question 16

craven

Answer 16

lacking any courage; fainthearted

A craven abdication of his moral duty

Question 17

denigrate

Answer 17

to blacken; to belittle; to sully; to disparage; to defame

“There is a tendency to denigrate the poor”

Question 18

denounce

Answer 18

to publicly condemn or criticize

Question 19

derision

Answer 19

scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment

“my stories were greeted with derision and disbelief”

Question 20

discomfit

Answer 20

to defeat; to put down

“She was noticeably discomfited by his tone”

Question 21

disingenuous

Answer 21

insincere; lacking in honesty or frankness

Question 22

dissemble

Answer 22

to disguise; to conceal

“An honest, sincere person with no need to dissemble”

Question 23

exacerbate

Answer 23

to make worse; or more severe; to increase in violence

Question 24

fraud

Answer 24

deliberate deceit with the goal of gaining an unlawful advantage

Question 25

furtive

Answer 25

marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious They spent a furtive day together sneaking around. Also- the look in her eyes became furtive

Question 26

garrulous

Answer 26

pointlessly talkative; talking too much Why use many word when few do trick

Question 27

harangue

Answer 27

to deliver a pompous speech or tirade "When the police pulled them over, they were subjected to a ten-minute harangue"

Question 28

impudent

Answer 28

saucy; bold; disrespectful “He was being impudent when he didn’t tip the waiter”

Question 29

inopportune

Answer 29

ill-timed; unsuitable; inappropriate

Question 30

irascible

Answer 30

easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts “I used to be irascible however now I am less quick to anger

Question 31

malevolent

Answer 31

having or showing often vicious ill-will, spite, hatred “The glint of dark malevolent eyes”

Question 32

marital

Answer 32

associated with war and the armed forces

Question 33

misanthrope

Answer 33

one who hates all humans

Question 34

morose

Answer 34

sad; sullen; melancholy “Losing Rex made me morose”

Question 35

obdurate

Answer 35

unyielding; hardhearted; intractable “I argued the point with him but he was unyielding and obdurate”

Question 36

obsequious

Answer 36

exhibiting a fawning attentiveness “We were served by obsequious waiters so we ended up tipping them very well”

Question 37

obstinate

Answer 37

stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising

Question 38

onerous

Answer 38

troubling; burdensome She found her duties increasingly onerous

Question 39

opprobrium

Answer 39

disgrace; scorn; contempt “the opprobrium of being closely associated with political chicanery" lol

Question 40

pedantic

Answer 40

the parading of learning; excessive attention to minutiae or formal rules

Question 41

perjury

Answer 41

the purposeful giving of false or misleading testimony while under oath

Question 42

provoke

Answer 42

to incite anger, resentment, or exasperation

Question 43

recalcitrant

Answer 43

obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage

Question 44

secrete

Answer 44

to ensconce, conceal, or stow

Question 45

specious

Answer 45

seeming true, but actually fallacious; misleadingly attractive Water is the desert

Question 46

spurious

Answer 46

lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit

Question 47

squander

Answer 47

to waste by spending or using irresponsibly

Question 48

tirade

Answer 48

a long extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation

Question 49

vexation

Answer 49

annoyance or irritation “She bit her lip in vexation”

Question 50

Writ large

Answer 50

Clear and obvious "the unspoken question writ large upon Rose's face"

Question 51

simile

Answer 51

figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind "as brave as a lion"

Question 52

polity

Answer 52

a form or process of civil government or constitution "the civic humanist's polity"

Question 53

incipient

Answer 53

beginning to happen or develop "he could feel incipient anger building up"

Question 54

protean

Answer 54

tending or able to change frequently or easily "it is difficult to comprehend the whole of this protean subject"

Question 55

Nullius in verba

Answer 55

"take nobody's word for it"

Question 56

vitiate

Answer 56

spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of "development programmes have been vitiated by the rise in population"