Details Title: Beyond the Hit Parade Group 1 Description: Dual Meanings Total Flash Cards: 51 Created: 12/12/2008 20:33:50		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Language - English Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term Alloy Definition to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; (unalloyed means pure) Term appropriate Definition to take for one's own use, confiscate Term arrest, arresting Definition to suspend; to engage; holding one's attention: as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait Term august Definition majestic, venerable Term bent Definition leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency Term broach Definition to bring up, announce, begin to talk about Term brook Definition to tolerate, endure Term cardinal Definition major, as in a cardinal sin Term chauvinist Definition a blindly devoted pariot Term color Definition to change as if by dying, i.e. to distort, gloss, or affect Term consequential Definition compous, self-important Term damp Definition to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound Term die Definition a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop Term esay Definition to test or try, etempt, experiment Term exact Definition to demand, call for, require, take Term fell (v) Definition to cause to fall by striking Term fell (adj) Definition inhumanly cruel Term flag Definition to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline Term flip Definition sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant Term ford Definition to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream Term grouse Definition to complain or grumble Term guy (noun/verb) Definition a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide, to steady or reinforce using a guy: think *guide* Term intimate Definition to imply, suggest, insinuate Term list Definition to tilt or lean to one side Term lumber Definition to move heavily and clumsily Term meet (adjective) Definition fitting, proper Term milk Definition to exploit, to squeeze every ounce of Term mince Definition pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak to carefully Term nice Definition exacting, fastidious, extremely precise Term obtain Definition to be established, accepted, or customary Term occult Definition hidden, concealed, b eyond comprehension Term pedestrian Definition commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian Term pied Definition multicolored, usually in blotches Term pine Definition to lose givor (as through grief; to yearn Term plastic Definition moldable, pliable, not rigid Term pluck Definition courage, spunk, fortitude Term prize Definition to pry, to press or force with a lever, something taken by force, spoils Term rail Definition to complain about bitterly Term rent (verb/noun) Definition torn, past of rend Term quail Definition to lose courage, turn frightened Term qualify Definition to limit Term sap (verb) Definition to enervate or weaken the vitality of Term sap (noun) Definition a fool or nitwit Term scurvy Definition contemptible, despicable Term singular Definition exceptional, unusual, odd Term stand Definition a group of trees Term steep Definition to saturate or completely soak Term table Definition to remove from consideration Term tender Definition to proffer or offer Term waffle Definition to equivocate, to change one's position Term wag Definition wit, joker