Hit Parade 1
Vocabulary Cards: 67
- 1.
- to depart clandestinely: to steal off & hand
- 2.
- opposition
- hardship or difficulty
- 3.
- to worsen or intensify
- 4.
- self-important or pompous writing or speech
- 5.
- dissonance
- harsh, jarring, discordant sound
- 6.
- to criticize severly
- to officially rebuke
- 7.
- trickery or subterfuge
- 8.
- serving or intended to compel by force or authority
- 9.
- harsh denounciation
- 10.
- scorn
- ridicule
- contempuous treatment
- 11.
- to put down
- to degeat
- 12.
- insincere
- lacking in honesty or frankness
- 13.
- to mislead
- to disguise or conceal
- 14.
- covert
- marked by stealth
- surreptitous
- 15.
- to deliver a pompous speech or tirade
- 16.
- impertinent
- saucy
- bod & disrespectful
- 17.
- easily angered
- prone to tempermental outbursts
- 18.
- having or showing often VICIOUS ill-will, spite or hatred
- 19.
- associated with war & the armed forces
- 20.
- intractable
- unyielding
- hardhearted
- 21.
- exhibiting a fawing attentiveness
- 22.
- stubborn
- uncompromising
- hardheaded
- 23.
- burdensome
- troubling
- 24.
- scorn
- disgrace
- contempt
- 25.
- the parading of learning
- excessive attention to minutiae & formal rules
- 26.
- difficult to manage
- obstinately defiant of authority
- 27.
- to ensconce, conceal or stow
- 28.
- seming true, but actually being fallacious
- misleadingly attractive
- 29.
- counterfeit
- false
- lacking authenticity or valdity
- 30.
- to renounce or reject solemnly
- to recant to avoide
- 31.
- to put down
- to abolish or annul by authority
- 32.
- effete
- worn out
- no longer fertile
- 33.
- growth
- increase by successive addition
- building up
- 34.
- to obscure
- to foreshadow or intimate
- to suggest sketchily
- 35.
- a solemn or ecclesiastical curse
- accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
- 36.
- soothing
- something that assuages or allays pain or comforts
- 37.
- dislike
- aversition
- 38.
- diametrically opposed
- as in antithesis
- 39.
- spurious
- of dubious authenticity or origin
- 40.
- zenith
- culmination
- farthest or highest point
- antonym: perigee
- 41.
- one who abandons long-held religious or poitical convictions
- 42.
- deification
- glorification to godliness
- 43.
- apropos
- appropriate
- relevant
- p pertinent
- 44.
- complex, ornate design
- also a dance position
- 45.
- impudent
- 46.
- natural
- completely without guile
- without artificiality
- 47.
- austere
- stark
- someone practicing self-denial
- 48.
- roughness
- severity
- harshness
- rigor
- acrimony
- irritability
- 49.
- act of defamation or maligning
- animadersion
- 50.
- examination
- test
- analysis
- to put to a test
- 51.
- to allege
- to assert
- to aver
- 52.
- diligent
- hard-working
- sedulous
- 53.
- rarefy
- to make thinner or weaken
- 54.
- omen
- portent
- 55.
- patronage
- protection or support
- 56.
- favorable
- successful
- propitious
- prosperous
- 57.
- to justify
- to assert
- to prove
- to affirm
- to asservate
- 58.
- sinister
- ominous
- pernicious
- 59.
- poison
- cause of injury
- source of harm
- 60.
- group of plotters
- 61.
- to laugh out loudly
- 62.
- to sponge or mooch
- 63.
- to slander
- to make a false accusation
- 64.
- aspersion
- slander
- 65.
- to adorn or bedizen
- 66.
- hypercritical
- calculated to confuse or entrap in argument
- caviling
- 67.
- to find fault without good reason