P.R. Hit Parade 6
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- acumen
- quick, keen or accurate knowledge or insight
- adulterate
- to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
- archaic
- outdated, associated with a more primitive time
- aver
- to state as fact, to confirm or support
- dissemble
- to disguise or conceal
- eccentric
- departing from norms or convetions
- endemic
- native to a particular locality, region or people.
- evanescent
- tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing
- exacerbate
- to make worse
- grandiloquence
- pompous speech or expression
- hackneyed
- rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage
- hedonism
- devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. those of the senses
- hegemony
- the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others
- iconoclast
- one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions
- impassive
- revealing no emotion
- impunity
- immunity from punishment
- inchoate
- in an initial stage; not fully formed
- infelicitous
- unfortunate; innappropriate
- insipid
- without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland
- loquacious
- extremely talkative
- luminious
- emitting light
- malevolent
- showing spite or hatred
- misanthrope
- one who hates all other humans
- mitigate
- to make less severe or intense; to moderate
- occlude
- to obstruct or block
- pedagogy
- art of teaching, training or instructing
- penury
- poverty, destitution
- pine
- to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor
- pith
- the essential or central part
- pithy
- precise or brief
- placate
- to appease; to calm by making concessions
- platitude
- a superficial remark, offered as meaningful
- plummet
- to drop straight down
- prodigal
- recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
- profuse
- coming forth abundantly
- proliferate
- to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly
- queries
- questions; inquiries
- querulous
- prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome
- recalcitrant
- obstinately defiant of authority
- repudiate
- to refuse to have anything to do with; disown
- rescind
- to repeal
- reverent
- feeling profound awe and respect
- specious
- seeming true but actually being fallacious
- spurious
- lacking authenticity or validity
- subpeona
- a court order requiring testimony
- succinct
- brief; concise
- superfluous
- exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
- surfeit
- excess; overindulgence
- tenacity
- quality of adherence or persistence to something valued
- tenuous
- having little stregnth; flimsy
- tirade
- a long and extremely critical speech
- transient
- fleeting; passing quickly
- zealous
- fervent;ardent;impassioned