Glossary of Beyond the Hit Parade - Group 1
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- alloy
- verb - to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; unalloyed means pure
- august
- adjective - majestic, venerable
- bent
- noun - learning, inclination, proclivity, tendency: "He had a naturally artistic bent"
- broach
- verb - bring up, announce, begin to talk about
- brook
- verb - to tolerate, endure, countenance
- cardinal
- adjective - major, as in cardinal sin
- chauvinist
- noun - a blindly devoted patriot
- color
- verb - to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss or affect (usually the first): "Yellow journalism colored the truth"
- consequential
- adjective - pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following; important)
- damp
- verb - to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound
- die
- noun - a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop
- essay
- verb - to test or try; attempt, experiment: "The newly born fawn essayed a few wobbly steps"
- exact
- verb - to demand, call for, require, take: "Even a victorious war exacts a heavy price"
- fell (verb)
- to cause to fall by striking: "The lumberjacks arrived and felled many trees"
- fell (adjective)
- inhumanly cruel: "Fell beasts surrounded the explorers"
- flab
- verb - to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline: think of a flag on a windless day, as in "her flagging spirits"
- flag
- verb - to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline: think of a flag on a windless day, as in "her flagging spirits"
- flip
- adjective - sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark
- ford
- verb - to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream
- grouse
- verb - to complain or grumble
- guy
- noun/verb - a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: think "guide"
- intimate
- verb - to imply, suggest, or insinuate: "Are you intimating that I cannot be trusted?"
- lumber
- verb - to move heavily and clumsily: "Lumbering giants on land, walruses are actually graceful swimmers"
- meet
- adjective - fitting, proper: "It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame"
- milk
- verb - to exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of: "I milked the position for all it was worth"
- nice
- adjective - exacting, fastidious, extremely precise: "He made a nice distinction between the two cases"
- obtain
- adjective - to be established, accepted, or customary: "Those standards no longer obtain"
- occult
- adjective - hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
- pedestrian
- adjective - commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian
- pied
- adjective - multicolored, usually in blotches: "The Pied Piper of Hamlin was so called because of his multicolored coat"
- pine
- verb - to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn
- plastic
- adjective - moldable, pliable, not rigid
- prize
- verb - to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils: "The information was prized from him"
- rail
- verb - to complain about bitterly: "Early American progressives railed against the railroad barons"
- rent
- verb/noun - torn, past of rend: "He rent his garments"; an opening or tear caused by such: "a large rent in the fabric"
- quail
- verb - to lose courage, turn frightened
- qualify
- verb - to limit: "Let me qualify that statement"
- sap
- verb - to enervate or weaken the vitality of: "That race sapped my strength"
- scurvy
- adjective - contemptible, despicable: "He was a scurvy old bastard"
- singular
- adjective - exceptional, unusual, odd: "He was singularly well-suited for the job"
- stand
- noun - a group of trees
- steep
- verb - to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a a tea bag steep: "She was steeped in esoteric knowledge"
- strut
- noun - the supporting structural cross-part of a wing
- table
- verb - to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration: "They tabled the motion and will consider it again later"
- tender
- verb - to proffer or offer: "He tendered his resignation"
- wag
- noun - wit, joker: "Groucho Marx was a well-known wag"