Princeton Review Vocab Beyond Hit Parade

Question 1

Alloy

Answer 1

to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior

Question 2

Appropriate

Answer 2

to take for one’s own use; to confiscate

Question 3

Arrest

Answer 3

to suspend; to engage; to hold one’s attention

Question 4

August

Answer 4

magestic; venerable

Question 5

Bent

Answer 5

leaning; inclination; proclivity;tendency

Question 6

Broach

Answer 6

to bring up or announce; to begin to talk about

Question 7

Brook

Answer 7

to tolerate, endure, or countenance

Question 8

Cardinal

Answer 8

of great importance

Question 9

Color

Answer 9

to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss, or affect

Question 10

Damp

Answer 10

to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound, etc

Question 11

Die

Answer 11

a part of a machine that punches shaped holes or cuts

Question 12

Essay

Answer 12

to test or try; to attempt or experiment

Question 13

Exact

Answer 13

to demand, call for, require, or take

Question 14

Flag

Answer 14

to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline

Question 15

Flip

Answer 15

sarcastic; impertinent

Question 16

Ford

Answer 16

to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

Question 17

Grouse

Answer 17

to complain or grumble

Question 18

Guy

Answer 18

a cord or cable used to steady or guide something

Question 19

Intimate

Answer 19

to imply, suggest, or insinuate

Question 20

List

Answer 20

to tilt or lean to one side

Question 21

Lumber

Answer 21

to move heavily and clumsily

Question 22

Milk

Answer 22

to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of

Question 23

Mince

Answer 23

to pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully; also, to take tiny steps or tiptoe

Question 24

Nice

Answer 24

exacting ; fastidious; extremely, even excessively, precise

Question 25

Obtain

Answer 25

to be established, accepted, or customary

Question 26

Occult

Answer 26

hidden; concealed; beyond comprehension

Question 27

Pedestrian

Answer 27

commonplace; trite; unremarkable; quotidian

Question 28

Pied

Answer 28

multicolored, usually in blotches or patches

Question 29

Pine

Answer 29

to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn

Question 30

Plastic

Answer 30

moldable; pliable; not rigid

Question 31

Prize

Answer 31

to pry; to press or force with a lever; something taken by force; spoils

Question 32

Rail

Answer 32

to complain about bitterly

Question 33

Rent

Answer 33

torn, past tense of rend; an opening or tear caused by such

Question 34

Quail

Answer 34

to lose courage; to become frightened

Question 35

Qualify

Answer 35

to limit

Question 36

Sap

Answer 36

to enervate or weaken the vitality of

Question 37

Scurvy

Answer 37

contemptible; despicable

Question 38

Singular

Answer 38

exceptional; unusual; off

Question 39

Steep

Answer 39

to saturate or completely soak

Question 40

Strut

Answer 40

the supporting structural cross-part of a wing

Question 41

Table

Answer 41

to remove (as parliamentary motion) from consideration

Question 42

Tender

Answer 42

to proffer or offer; to give

Question 43

Waffle

Answer 43

to equivocate; to change one’s position

Question 44

Wag

Answer 44

wit; joker