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
discriminate or discern
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discern
distinguish with difficulty; perceive or recognize
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desuetude
disuse
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desultory
random; lack of purpose
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diaphanous
transparent, gauzy
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gauzy
so thin as to transmit light
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diffident
reserved, shy, unassuming, lacking confidence
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dirge
song of grief or lamentation
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lament
passionate expression of grief
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encomium
glowing and enthusiastic praise; tribute, eulogy
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panegyric
public speech or published text in praise of someone or something
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eschew
shun or avoid
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excoriate
censure scathingly
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upbraid
find fault; scold
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execrate
denounce, loathe
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exegesis
critical examination, explication
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explication
act of making clear or removing obscurity from the meaning
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expiate
atone, make amends
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extirpate
destroy, exterminate
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exscind
cut out
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fatuous
silly, inanely foolish
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fractious
quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, irritable
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refractory
stubborn or unmanageable
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gainsay
deny, dispute, oppose
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heterodox
unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic
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imbroglio
difficult or embarrassing situation
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dogged
showing tenacity and grim persistence
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tenacity
persistent determination
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ineluctable
certain, inevitable
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inimitable
one of a kind, peerless
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insouciant
carefree, heedless
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inveterate
deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
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jejune
vapid, uninteresting; childish, immature
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vapid
offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging
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nugatory
of no value or importance; futile, useless
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puerile
childishly silly and trivial
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lubricious
lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
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lewd
crude and offensive in a sexual way
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wanton
deliberate and unprovoked; promiscuous woman
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mendicant
beggar, supplicant
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supplicant
prayer: someone who prays to God
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meretricious
cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy
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tawdry
showy but cheap and of poor quality
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minatory
menacing, threatening
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nadir
low point, perigee
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perigee
point in orbit nearest to the earth
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nonplussed
baffled, bewildered
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obstreperous
noisily and stubbornly defiant; aggressively boisterous
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ossified
tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age (turn into bone)
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palliate
make something seem less serious; gloss over, make less severe or intense
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parsimonious
cheap, miserly
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miser
person who hoards wealth and spends as little money as possible
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pellucid
transparent, easy to understand, limpid
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limpid
clear
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peroration
concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech
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plangent
pounding, thundering, resounding
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prolix
long-winded, verbose
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verbose
using more words than needed
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propitiate
appease; concilate
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propitious
auspicious, favorable
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puissance
power, strength
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pusillanimous
cowardly, craven
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craven
contemptibly lacking in courage
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remonstrate
protest, object
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sagacious
having sound judgement; perceptive; wise
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salacious
lustful, lascivious, bawdy
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lascivious
feeling or revealing an overt and often offensive sexual desire
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bawdy
indecent; raunchy
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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 moralize excessively
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epigram
pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way
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stentorian
extremely loud and powerful
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stygian
gloomy, dark; hellish
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tendentious
biased; showing marked tendencies
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timorous
timid, fearful, diffident
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tyro
novice, greenhorn, rank amateur
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vitiate
corrupt, debase, spoil; make inneffective
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voluble
fluent, verbal
