Princeton - Beyond the Hit Parade Group 1 Flashcards
Appropriate (v)
To take for one’s own use; confiscate
Alloy (v)
To commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior
unalloyed means pure
Arrest, arresting (v)/(adj)
To suspend; to engage; holding one’s attention: as in arrested adolescence, as arresting point
August (adj)
Majestic, venerable
Bent (n)
Leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency
Broach (v)
To bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about
Brook (v)
To tolerate; to endure; to countenance
Cardinal (adj)
Major; as in a cardinal sin
Chauvinist (n)
A blindly devoted patriot
Color (v)
To change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss, or affect
(usually the first)
Consequential (adj)
Pompous, self-important
primary definitions are: logically following; important
Damp (v)
To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound
Die (n)
A tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop
Essay (v)
To test or try; to attempt; to experiment
Exact (v)
To demand; to call for; to require; to take
Fell (v)
To cause to fall by striking
Fell (adj)
Inhumanly cruel
Flag (adj)
To sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline
Flip (adj)
Sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark
Ford (v)
To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream