Hit Parade Group 5
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- aggrandize
- v. to increase in intensity, power, or prestige
- alchemy
- n. a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals, esp. base metals into gold
- anachronism
- n. something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context
- astringent
- adj. having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe
- contiguous
- adj. sharing a border; touching; adjacent
- convention
- n. a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude
- cynicism
- n. an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness
- decorum
- n. polite or appropriate conduct or behavior
- derision
- n. scorn, ridicule, contemptuous behavior
- desiccate
- v. to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull
- dilettante
- n. one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge
- disparage
- v. to slight or belittle
- divulge
- v. to disclose something secret
- immutable
- adj. not capable of change
- inimical
- adj. damaging; harmful; injurious
- intractable
- adj. not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate
- neophyte
- n. a recent convert; a beginner; novice
- presumptuous
- adj. overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties
- pristine
- adj. pure; uncorrupted; clean
- probity
- adj. adherence to highest principles; uprightness
- proclivity
- n. a natural predisposition or inclination
- profligate
- adj. excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant
- propensity
- n. a natural inclination or tendency, penchant
- prosaic
- adj. dull; unimaginative
- pungent
- adj. characterized by a strong, sharp smell or taste
- quixotic
- adj. foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals
- quotidian
- adj. occurring or recurring daily; commonplace
- rarefy
- v. to make or become thin, less dense; to refine
- recondite
- adj. hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure
- refulgent
- adj. radiant; shiny; brilliant
- renege
- v. to fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise
- shard
- n. a piece of broken pottery or glass
- sparse
- adj. thin; not dense; arranged at widely spaced intervals
- spendthrift
- n. one who spends money wastefully
- subtle
- adj. not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern
- tacit
- adj. implied; not explicitly stated
- terse
- adj. brief and concise in wording
- tout
- v. to publicly praise or promote
- trenchant
- adj. sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating
- unfeigned
- adj. genuine; not false or hypocritical
- untenable
- adj. indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable
- vacillate
- v. to waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another; waver
- variegated
- adj. multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different color
- vexation
- n. annoyance; irriation
- vigilant
- adj. alertly watchful
- vituperative
- v. to use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure abusively; berate
- volatile
- adj. readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive