Hit Parade #1 with Sentences & Images
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- aberrant
- deviating from the norm
- alacrity
- eager and enthusiastic
- audacias
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daring, fearless; taking surprisingly bold risks - capricious
- erratic and unpredictable in mood or behavior; changeable
- censure
- to criticize severly
- disparate
- fundamentally distinct
- enervate
- to weaken
- ennui
- dissatisfaction from boredom or apathy
- equivocate
- to use ambiguous language with deceptive intent
- exculpate
- clear of blame
- exigent
- urgent
- ingenuous
- frank and candid
- inured
- accustomed to accepting something undesirable
- irascible
- easily angered
- magnanamity
- generously noble in mind & heart
- noxious
- harmful
- obtuse
- not precise in thought
- obviate
- to anticipate; to make necessary
- perennial
- recurrent
- perfunctory
- done without care
- prevaricate
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deliberately avoid the truth; speak or act in an evasive way
Sentence: he seemed to prevaricate when journalists asked pointed questions - solicitous
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concerned and attentive - tortuous
- winding; twisting; complicated
- voracious
- having an insatiable apetite
- abjure
- to reject solemnly
- abrogate
- to abolish or annul
- abcission
- act of cutting or removing
- acarpous
- no longer fertile
- accretion
- growth
- adroit
- skillful & adept
- adumbrate
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to foreshadow - anathema
- solemn or religious curse
- anodyne
- soothing
- apocryphal
- of dubious origin
- apogee
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farthest point in the orbit of the moon or a satteline - apostate
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one who abandons long held religious or political belief
ex. Julian the Apostate, who abandoned christianity for theurgy - apotheosis
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the elevation of someone to divine status; deification. - apposite
- relevant; appropriate
- apprise
- to inform
- arabesque
- complex design
- arcane
- mysterious
- arrant
- impudent; without qualification
- asperity
- severity
- ascetic
- someone practicing self-denial
- aspersion
- act of defamation
- assay
- examine (something) in order to assess its nature
- asseverate
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to solemny or emphatically assert - assiduous
- working with great care and perseverence
- attenuate
- to weaken; reduce the force, effect, or value of
- augury
- omen
- auspice
- protection; support
- auspicious
- favorable; successful
- aver
- to assert; to prove
- baleful
- harmful
- bane
- source of harm
- beatify
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to make blissfully happy - bedizen
- to adorn
- bellicose
- belligerent; warlike
- bilge
- bulge or swell
- blandish
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to coax with flattery - blithe
-
carefree
Sentence: a blithe seaside comedy. - boor
- rude person
- burnish
- to polish or shine
- byzantine
- complex
- cabal
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a secret political clique or faction - cochinnate
- to laugh loudly
- cadge
- to mooch
- cajole
- to coax
- calumniate
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to slander
Sentence: Pray for those who persecute and calumniate you. St. Matthew 5:44 - caparison
- adorn
- captious
- calculated to confuse in argument
- cavil
- to find fault without good reason
- chasten
- to correct
- chimera
- illusion
- anomoly
- deviation from the norm; abnormality
- approbation
- expression of approval or praise
- assuage
- to ease or lessen