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Princeton - Beyond the Hit Parade Group 2 Flashcards

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Adumbrate (v)

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To foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

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Abjure (v)

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To renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

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Anathema (n)

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A solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accused or thoroughly loathed person or thing

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Anodyne (adj)/(n)

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Soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

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Apogee (n)

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Farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

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Apostate (n)

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One who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

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Apotheosis (n)

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Deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example; a model of excellence or perfection

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Asperity (n)

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Severity, rigor; roughness, harshness;; acrimony, irritability

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Asseverate (v)

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To aver, allege, or assert

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Assiduous (adj)

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Diligent, hard-working, sedulous

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Augury (n)

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Omen, portent

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Bellicose (adj)

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Belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

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Calumniate (v)

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To slander, to make a false accusation

calumny means slander, aspersions

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Captious (adj)

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Disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument

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Cavil (v)

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To find fault without good reason

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Celerity (n)

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Speed, alacrity

think accurate

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Chimera (n)

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An illusion

originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

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Contumacious (adj)

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Insubordinate, rebellious

contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion

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Debacle (n)

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Rout, fiasco, complete failure

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Denouement (n)

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An outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

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Descry (v)

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To discriminate or discern

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Desuetude (v)

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Disuse

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Desultory (adj)

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Random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

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Diaphanous (adj)

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Transparent, gauzy

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Diffident (adj)

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Reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence

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Dirge (n)

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A song of grief or lamentation

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Encomium (n)

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Glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

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Eschew (v)

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To shun or avoid

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Excoriate (v)

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To censure scathingly, to upbraid

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Execrate (v)

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To denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to declare to be evil

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Exegesis (n)

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Critical examination, explication

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Expiate (v)

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To atone or make amends for

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Extirpate (v)

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To destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to exscind

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Fatuous (adj)

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Silly, inanely foolish

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Fractious (adj)

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Quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

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Gainsay (v)

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To deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose

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Heterodox (adj)

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Unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

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Imbroglio (n)

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Difficult or embarrassing situation

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Indefatigable (adj)

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Not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged

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Ineluctable (adj)

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Certain, inevitable

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Inimitable (adj)

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One of a kind, peerless

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Insouciant (adj)

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Unconcerned, carefree, heedless

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Inveterate (adj)

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Deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

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Jejune (adj)

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Vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile

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Lubricious (adj)

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Lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

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Mendicant (n)

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A beggar, supplicant

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Meretricious (adj)

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Cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show

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Minatory (adj)

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Menacing, threatening

reminds you of Minotaur

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Nadir (n)

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Low point, perigee

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Nonplussed (adj)

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Baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

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Obstreperous (adj)

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Noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

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Ossified (adj)

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Tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone

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Palliate (v)

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To make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense

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Panegyric (n)

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Formal praise, eulogy, encomium

panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise

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Parsimonious (adj)

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Cheap, miserly

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Pellucid (adj)

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Transparent, easy to understand, limpid

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Peroration (n)

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The concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

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Plangent (adj)

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Pounding, thundering, resounding

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Prolix (adj)

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Long-winded, verbose

prolixity means verbosity

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Propitiate (v)

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To appease; to conciliate

propitious means auspicious, favorable

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Puerile (adj)

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Childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

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Puissance (n)

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Power, strength

puissant means powerful, strong

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Pusillanimous (adj)

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Cowardly, craven

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Remonstrate (v)

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To protest, to object

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Sagacious (adj)

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Having sound judgment; perceptive, wise

like a sage

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Salacious (adj)

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Lustful, lascivious, bawdy

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Salutary (adj)

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Remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

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Sanguine (adj)

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Cheerful, confident, optimistic

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Saturnine (adj)

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Gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

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Sententious (adj)

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Aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively

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Stentorian (adj)

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Extremely loud and powerful

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Stygian (adj)

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Gloomy, dark

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Sycophant (n)

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Toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite

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Tendentious (adj)

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Biased; showing marked tendencies

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Timorous (adj)

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Timid, fearful, diffident

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Tyro (n)

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Novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

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Vitiate (v)

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To corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective

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Voluble (adj)

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Fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language

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