Beyond the Hit Parade Group 1, Princeton Review
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| alloy | to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior (unalloyed = pure)
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| appropriate | to take for own use; to confiscate
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| arrest, arresting (verb/adj.) | to suspend; to engage; holding one's attention
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| august | majestic, venerable (respect)
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| bent | leaning, inclination, proclivity
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| broach | to bring up; to announce
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| brook | to tolerate; to countenance (admit as acceptable)
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| cardinal | major, as in cardinal sin
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| chauvinist | a blindly devoted patriot
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| color | to change by dyeing; to distort, gloss, or affect
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| consequential | pompous
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| damp (verb) | to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound
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| die (noun) | a tool used for shaping (as in a tool-and-die shop)
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| essay (verb) | to test or try; to experiment
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| exact (verb) | to demand; to take
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| fell (verb) | to cause to fall by striking
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| fell (adj) | inhumanely cruel
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| flag (verb) | to sag or droop; to decline
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| flip (adj) | sarcastic, as in flippant
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| ford (verb) | to wade across a shallow part of a river or stream
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| grouse | to complain or grumble
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| guy (noun) | a rope or cord attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy. THINK GUIDE
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| intimate (verb) | to imply
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| list (verb) | to tilt or lean to one side
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| lumber (verb) | to move heavily and clumsiy
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| meet (adj) | fitting, proper
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| milk (verb) | to exploit
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| mince (v) | to pronounce or speak affectedly, to tip toe or speak too carefully
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| nice (adj) | exacting, extremely precise
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| obtain (adj) | to be established, accepted
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| pedestrian (adj) | commonplace, trite
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| pied (adj) | multicolored
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| pine (verb) | to lose vigor
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| plastic (adj) | moldable, pliable
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| pluck (noun) | courage, spunk
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| prize (v) | to pry, to press or force with a lever, something taken by force
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| rail (v) | to complain about bitterly
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| rent (v) | torn (past tense of rend); an opening or tear caused by such
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| quail (v) | to lose courage
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| qualify (v) | to limit
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| sap (v) | to weaken
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| sap (n) | a fool or nitwit
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| scurvy (adj) | contemptible, despicable
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| singular (adj) | exceptional, odd, unusual
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| stand (n) | a group of trees
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| steep (v) | to saturate or completely soak
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| strut (n) | the supporting structural cross-part of a wing
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| table (v) | to remove from consideration
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| tender (v) | to offer or proffer
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| waffle (v) | to equivocate; to change one's position
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| wag (n) | wit, joker
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