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Beyond Hit Parade 6

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runic adj. mysterious; magical
sagacious adj. having sound judgement; perceptive; wise
salient adj. prominent; protruding; conspicuous (obvious to the eye); relevant
sanctimony n. self-righteousness; being hypocrytically devout
sanguine adj. cheerful; confident;optimistic
seminal adj. originative; like a seed; constituting a source
sententious adj. pithy (concise and full of moral & meaning); aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively
simper v./n. to smirk; a silly smile
sinecure n. position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income
slake v. to satisfy or quench
sophistry n. fallacious reasoning; faulty logic
sophomoric adj. silly and immature; affected; bombastic
splenetic adj. bad-tempered; irritable
supercilious adj. disdainful (expressing contempt); swagger
tamp v. to plug; to drive in or down by a series of blows
tawdry adj. raffish; cheap; gaudy; showy; tacky; meretricious
tendentious adj. showing marked tendencies; biased (in good side)
timorous adj. timid; fearful; diffident
torrid adj. scorching; ardent; passionate
turpitude n. depravity; prurience; corrupt act
tyro n. novice; greenhorn; rank amateur
umbrage n. offense; resentment; pique
undulate v. to move in wavelike fashion; to fluctuate
upbraid v. to scold; to censure; to rebuke; to chastise
verisimilitude n. appearance of truth or reality
veritable adj. authentic; honest-to-goodness
virago n. a loud, domineering (aggressive) woman; a scold or nag
volubility n. fluency; verbosity; easy use of spoken language
waft v. to cause to move as if by a light breeze
welter v. to writhe; to toss about; to be in turmoil (violent disturbance)
wend v. to go; to proceed; to walk
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