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