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Princeton Review-Beyond Hit Parade
Final and harder set of vocab to study
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Undergraduate 4
10/09/2010

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ABJURE
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v. to renounce or reject; to avoid
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ADUMBRATE
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v. to foreshadow vaguely; to outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow.
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ANATHEMA
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n. ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or loather person or thing
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ANODYNE
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adj. /n. soothing, something that assuages or comforts
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APOGEE
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n. farthest or highest point; a reaching of highest state
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APOSTATE
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n. one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
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APOTHEOSIS
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n. deification, glorification to godliness, a model of excellence
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ASPERITY
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n. severity,rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability
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ASSEVERATE
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v. to aver, allege, assert
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ASSIDUOUS
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adj. diligent, hardworking
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AUGURY
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n. omen, portent
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BELLICOSE
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adj. belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
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CALUMNIATE
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v. to slander, to make false accusations
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CAPTIOUS
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adj. dispose to point out trivial faults, meant to confuse or entrap in argument
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CAVIL
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v. to find fault without good reason
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CELERITY
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n. speed, alacrity thinkĀ  accelerate
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CHIMERA
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n. an illusion; past an imaginary she-monster
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CONTUMACIOUS
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adj. insubordinate, rebellious
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DEBACLE
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n. rout, fiasco, complete failure
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DENOUEMENT
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n. an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
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DESCRY
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v. to discriminate or discern
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DESUETUDE
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n. disuse, the discontinuation of use
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DESULTORY
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adj. random; marked by a lack of plan or purpose
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DIAPHANOUS
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adj. transparent, gauzy
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DIFFIDENT
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adj. reserved, shy; lacking self-confidence
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dirge
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n. a song of grief or lamentation
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ENCOMIUM
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n. glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy
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ESCHEW
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v. to shun or avoid
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EXCORIATE
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v. to censure scathingly or severely; to upbraid
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EXECRATE
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v. denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare evil
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EXEGESIS
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n. critical examination, explication
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EXPIATE
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v. to atone or make amends for
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EXTIRPATE
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v. to destroy, exterminate, exscind
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FATUOUS
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adj. silly, inanely foolish
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FRACTIOUS
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adj. quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable
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GAINSAY
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v. to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose
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HETERODOX
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adj. unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic
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IMBROGLIO
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n. difficult or embarrassing situation
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INDEFATIGABLE
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adj. not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged
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INIMITABLE
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adj. one of a kind, peerless
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INSOUCIANT
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adj. unconcerned, carefree, heedless
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INVETERATE
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adj. deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
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JEJUNE
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adj. vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish, immature, puerile
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LUBRICIOUS
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adj. lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
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MENDICANT
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n. a beggar, supplicant
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MERETRICIOUS
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adj. cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show
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MINATORY
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adj. menacing, threatening
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NADIR
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n. low point, perigee
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NONPLUSSED
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adj. baffled, bewildered
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OBSTREPEROUS
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adj. noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous
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OSSIFIED
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adj. tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, with age; literally, turned into bone
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PALLIATE
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v. to make something seem less serious
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PANEGYRIC
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n. formal praise, eulogy, encomium
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PARSIMONIOUS
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adj. cheap, miserly
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PELLUCID
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adj. transparent, easy to understand, limpid
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PERORATION
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n. the concluding of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech
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PLANGENT
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adj. pounding, thundering, resounding
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PROLIX
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adj. long-winded, verbose
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PROPITIATE
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v. to appease; to conciliate
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PUERILE
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adj. childish, immature, jejune, nugatory
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PUISSANCE
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n. power, strength
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PUSILLANIMOUS
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adj. cowardly, craven
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REMONSTRATE
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v. to protest, object
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SAGACIOUS
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adj. having sound judgment; perceptive, wise, like a sage
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SALACIOUS
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adj. lustful, lascivious, bawdy
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SALUTARY
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adj. remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
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SANGUINE
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adj. cheerful, confident, optimistic
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SATURNINE
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adj. gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
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SENTENTIOUS
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adj. aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic, tending to moralize excessively
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STENTORIAN
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adj. extremely loud and powerful
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STYGIAN
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adj. gloomy, dark
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SYCOPHANT
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n. toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite
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TENDENTIOUS
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adj. biased; showing marked tendencies
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TIMOROUS
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adj. timid, fearful, diffident
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TYRO
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n. novice, greenhorn, rank amateur
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VITIATE
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v. to corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective
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VOLUBLE
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adj. fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language
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