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Hit Parade - Group 1 Flashcards

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Abscond

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To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide

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Aberrant

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Deviating from the norm

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Alacrity

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Eager and enthusiastic willingness

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Anomaly

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Deviation from normal order, form or rule; abnormality. Adjective is anomalous

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Approbation

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An expression of approval or praise

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Arduous

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Strenuous; taxing, requiring significant effort

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Assuage

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To ease or lessen; to appease or pacify

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Audacious

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Daring and fearless; recklessly bold

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Austere

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Without adornment, bare, severely simple, ascetic

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Axiomatic

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Taken as a given, possessing self-evident truth

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Canonical

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Following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards

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Capricious

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Inclined to change ones mind impulsively, erratic and unpredictable

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Censure

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To criticize severely, to officially rebuke

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Chicanery

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Trickery or subterfuge

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Subterfuge

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Deceit used in order to achieve ones goals

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Rebuke

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To express sharp disproval or criticism of someone because of their behavior or actions

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Connoisseur

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An informal and astute judge in matters of taste; expert

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Convoluted

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Complex or complicated

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Disabuse

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To undeceive; to set right

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Discordant

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Conflicting, dissonant or harsh in sound

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Disparate

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Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar

“They inhabit disparate worlds of thought.”

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Effrontery

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Extreme boldness; presumptuous

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Eloquent

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Well spoken, expressive, articulate

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Ennui

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Dissatisfaction and recklessness resulting from boredom or apathy

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Equivocate

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To use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent

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Erudite

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Very learned; scholarly

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Exculpate

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To exonerate, clear of blame

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Extemporaneous

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Improvised; done without preparation

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Filibuster

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Intentional obstruction; especially using prolonged speech making to prevent legislation

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Ingenuous

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Artless, frank and candid, lacking in sophisitication

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Inured

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Accustomed to accepting something undesirable

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Irascible

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Easily angered, prone to temperamental outbursts

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Laud

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To praise highly

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Lucid

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Clear; easily understood

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Magnanimity

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The quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. In forgiving

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Martial

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Associated with war and the armed forces

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Mundane

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Of the world, typical of or concerned with the ordinary

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Nebulous

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Vague, cloudy, lacking clearly defined form

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Neologism

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A new word, expression or usage; the creation of new words or senses

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Obtuse

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Lacking sharpness of intellect, not clear or precise in thought or expression

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Obviate

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To anticipate and make unnecessary, remove

“The Venetian blinds obviates the need for curtains.”

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Onerous

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Troubling, burdensome

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Paean

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A song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving

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Parody

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A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, esp. In literature and art

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Perennial

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Recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly

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Perfidy

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Intentional breach of faith, treachery

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Perfunctory

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Cursory; carried out with minimum effort; done without care or interest

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Perspicacious

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Acutely perceptive, having keen discernment

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Precipitate (v)

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To cause or happen before anticipated or required

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Precipitate (adj)

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Acting with excessive haste or impulse

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Predilection

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A disposition in favor of something, preference

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Prevaricate

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To deliberately avoid the truth, to mislead

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Recant

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To retract esp. A previously held belief

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Refute

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To disprove; to successfully argue against

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Relegate

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To forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position

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Reticent

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Quiet, reserved, reluctant to express thoughts or feelings

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Sordid

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Characterized by filth, grime, squalor; foul

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Sporadic

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Occurring only occasionally or in scattered instances

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Squander

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To waste by spending or using irresponsibly

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Static

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Not moving active or in motion; at rest

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Stymie

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To block; thwart

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Synthesis

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The combination of parts to make a whole

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Torque

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A force that causes rotation

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Tortuous

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Winding, twisting, excessively complicated

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Truculent

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Fierce and cruel, eager to fight

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Virulent

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Extremely harmful or poisoned, bitterly hostile or antagonistic

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Voracious

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Having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit, ravenous

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Waver

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To move to and fro, to sway, to be unsettled in opinion

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Prescience, (adj - prescient)

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Foreknowledge of events

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Solicitous, adj

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Concerned and attentive

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Veracity, n

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Truthfulness, honesty

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Noxious, adj.

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Harmful, injurious

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Qualms, n.

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Misgivings, reservations

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Nascent, adj.

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Coming into being

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Enervate, v.

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To weaken, to reduce in vitality

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Exigent, adj.

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Urgent, pressing

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Prattle, v.

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To babble meaninglessly

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Fulminate, v.

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To loudly attack or denounce

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Stupefy, v.

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To stun, baffle or amaze

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