Glossary of Beyond the Hit Parade - Group 2
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- abjure
- verb - to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid
- adumbrate
- verb - to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow
- anathema
- noun - a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing
- anodyne
- adjective/noun - soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts
- apogee
- noun - farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith
- apostate
- noun - one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
- apotheosis
- noun - deification, glorification to godliness, an exalted example, a model of excellence or perfection
- asperity
- noun - severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability
- asseverate
- verb - to aver, allege, assert
- assiduous
- adjective - diligent, hard-working, sedulous
- augury
- noun - omen, portent
- bellicose
- adjective - belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
- calumniate
- verb - to slander, make a false accusation, calumny means slander aspersion
- captious
- adjective - disposed to point out trivial faults, calculated to confuse or entrap in argument
- cavil
- verb - to find fault without good reason
- celerity
- noun - speed, alacrity, think accelerate
- chimera
- noun - an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster
- contumacious
- adjective - insubordinate, rebellious; contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion
- debacle
- noun - rout, fiasco, complete failure: "My first attempt at a souffle was a total debacle"
- denouement
- noun - an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
- descry
- verb - to discriminate or discern
- desuetude
- noun - disuse: "After years of desuetude, my French skills were finally put to use"
- desultory
- adjective - random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose: "Her desultory performance impressed no one"
- diaphanous
- adjective - transparent, gauzy
- diffident
- adjective - reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence: "Surprisingly, the CEO of the corporation had been a diffident youth"
- dirge
- noun - a song of grief or lamentation: "We listened to the slow, funereal dirge"
- encomium
- noun - glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy
- eschew
- verb - to shun or avoid; repudiate: "She chose to eschew the movie theater, preferring to watch DVDs at home"
- excoriate
- verb - to censure scathingly, to upbraid
- execrate
- verb - denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil
- exegesis
- noun - critical examination, explication
- expiate
- verb - to atone or make amends for: "Pia Zadora has expiated her movie career by good works and charity"
- extirpate
- verb - to destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind
- fatuous
- adjective - silly, inanely foolish: "I would ignore such a fatuous comment"
- fractious
- adjective - quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable
- gainsay
- verb - to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose
- heterodox
- adjective - unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic
- imbroglio
- noun - difficult or embarrassing situation
- indefatigable
- adjective - not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged
- ineluctable
- adjective - certain, inevitable
- inimitable
- adjective - one of a kind, peerless
- insouciant
- adjective - unconcerned, carefree, heedless
- inveterate
- adjective - deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
- jejune
- adjective - vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile
- lubricious
- adjective - lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
- mendicant
- noun - a beggar, supplicant
- meretricious
- adjective - cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show
- minatory
- adjective - menacing, threatening (reminds you of the Minotaur, a threatening creature indeed)
- nadir
- noun - low point, perigee
- nonplussed
- adjective - baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think
- obstreperous
- adjective - noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous
- ossified
- adjective - tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone
- palliate
- verb - to make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense
- panegyric
- noun - formal praise, eulogy, encomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise
- parsimonious
- adjective - cheap, miserly: "A parsimonious person parses out his money with great difficulty"
- pellucid
- adjective - transparent, easy to understand, limpid
- peroration
- noun - the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech
- plangent
- adjective - pounding, thundering, resounding
- prolix
- adjective - long-winded, verbose; prolixity means verbosity: "Mikhail Gorbachev is famous for his prolixity"
- propitiate
- verb - to appease; to conciliate; propitious means auspicious, favorable
- puerile
- adjective - childish, immature, jejune, nugatory
- puissance
- noun - power, strength; puissant means powerful, strong: "The senator delivered a puissant speech to the convention"
- pusillanimous
- adjective - cowardly, craven
- remonstrate
- verb - to protest, object
- sagacious
- adjective - having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage
- salacious
- adjective - lustful, lascivious, bawdy
- salutary
- adjective - remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
- sanguine
- adjective - cheerful, confident, optimistic
- saturnine
- adjective - gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
- sententious
- adjective - aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively
- stentorian
- adjective - extremely loud and powerful
- stygian
- adjective - gloomy, dark
- sycophant
- noun - toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite
- tendentious
- adjective - biased; showing marked tendencies
- timorous
- adjective - timid, fearful, diffident
- tyro
- noun - novice, greenhorn, rank amateur
- vitiate
- verb - to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective
- voluble
- adjective - fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language