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Hit Parade Group 6 Flashcards

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abjure

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renounce, recant, avoid

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adumbrate

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foreshadow, intimate; obscure or overshadow

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anathema

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solemn curse; thoroughly loathed person or thing

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ecclesiastical

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religious

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anodyne

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soothing

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allay

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put at rest; alleviate or relieve

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apogee

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zenith

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apostate

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one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

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apotheosis

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deification; model of excellence or perfection

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exalted

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person of high status or ranking

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asperity

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severity, rigor; roughness; acrimony, irritability

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assiduous

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diligent, hard-working

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sedulous

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showing dedication and diligence

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augory

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omen, portent

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portent

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sign of something calamitous or momentous

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bellicose

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warlike, belligerent, pugnacious

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calumniate

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slander

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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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find fault without good reason

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celerity

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speed, alacrity

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chimera

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illusion

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contumacious

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insubordinate, rebellious

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rout

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disorderly retreat of troops

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denouement

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outcome or solution; unraveling of plot

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descry

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discriminate or discern

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discern

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distinguish with difficulty; perceive or recognize

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desuetude

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disuse

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desultory

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random; lack of purpose

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diaphanous

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transparent, gauzy

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gauzy

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so thin as to transmit light

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diffident

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reserved, shy, unassuming, lacking confidence

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dirge

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song of grief or lamentation

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lament

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passionate expression of grief

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encomium

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glowing and enthusiastic praise; tribute, eulogy

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panegyric

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public speech or published text in praise of someone or something

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eschew

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shun or avoid

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excoriate

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censure scathingly

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upbraid

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find fault; scold

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execrate

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denounce, loathe

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exegesis

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critical examination, explication

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explication

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act of making clear or removing obscurity from the meaning

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expiate

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atone, make amends

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extirpate

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destroy, exterminate

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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, irritable

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refractory

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stubborn or unmanageable

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gainsay

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deny, dispute, oppose

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heterodox

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unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

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imbroglio

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difficult or embarrassing situation

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dogged

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showing tenacity and grim persistence

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tenacity

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persistent determination

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ineluctable

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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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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; childish, immature

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vapid

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offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging

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nugatory

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of no value or importance; futile, useless

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puerile

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childishly silly and trivial

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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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wanton

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deliberate and unprovoked; promiscuous woman

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mendicant

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beggar, supplicant

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supplicant

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prayer: someone who prays to God

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meretricious

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cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy

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tawdry

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showy but cheap and of poor quality

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minatory

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menacing, threatening

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nadir

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low point, perigee

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perigee

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point in orbit nearest to the earth

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nonplussed

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baffled, bewildered

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obstreperous

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noisily and stubbornly defiant; aggressively boisterous

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ossified

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tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age (turn into bone)

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palliate

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

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parsimonious

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cheap, miserly

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miser

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person who hoards wealth and spends as little money as possible

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pellucid

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transparent, easy to understand, limpid

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limpid

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peroration

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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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verbose

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using more words than needed

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propitiate

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appease; concilate

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propitious

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auspicious, favorable

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puissance

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power, strength

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pusillanimous

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cowardly, craven

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craven

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contemptibly lacking in courage

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remonstrate

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protest, object

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sagacious

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having sound judgement; perceptive; wise

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salacious

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lustful, lascivious, bawdy

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lascivious

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feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire

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bawdy

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indecent; raunchy

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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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epigram

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pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way

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stentorian

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extremely loud and powerful

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stygian

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gloomy, dark; hellish

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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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corrupt, debase, spoil; make inneffective

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voluble

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fluent, verbal

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