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Hit Parade (group 1)
Question | Answer |
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Abscond | to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide |
adversity | hardship or difficulty; opposition |
aggravate | to worsen or intensify |
arduous | strenuous; taxing; tedious |
belie | to give false impression of; hidden meaning; to misrepresent |
bombast | self-important or pompous writing or speech |
cacophony | harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance |
censure | to criticize severely; to officially rebuke |
chicanery | trickery |
coercive | serving or intended to compel by force or authority |
condemn | to blame or denounce |
conspire | to secretly work together with the intent to commit a wrong or illegal act |
covert | hidden |
cower | shrink in fear; cringe |
craven | contemptibly fainthearted, lacking any courage |
denigrate | to blacken; to belittle; to defame; to sully |
denounce | publicly condemn or criticize |
derision | scorn; ridicule |
diatribe | a harsh denunciation |
discomfit | to defeat; to put down |
disingenuous | insincere; lacking in honesty or frankness |
dissemble | conceal; to mislead |
exacerbate | to make worse; to increase in violence |
fraud | fake; deliberate deceit with the goal of gaining an unlawful advantage |
furative | marked by stealth; covert |
garrulous | talking too much |
harangue | to deliver a pompous speech or tirade |
impudent | bold and disrespectful |
inopportune | ill-timed; unsuitable; inappropriate |
irascible | easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts |
malevolent | showing ill-will, spite, or hatred |
martial | pertaining with war and the armed forces |
misanthrope | one who hates all other humans |
morose | sad; sullen; melancholy |
obdurate | unyielding; intractable |
obsequious | exhibiting a fawning attentiveness |
obstinate | stubborn |
onerous | troubling; burdensome |
opprobrium | disgrace; contempt; scorn |
pedantic | the parading of learning; excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules |
perjury | the purposeful giving of false or misleading testimony while under oath |
provoke | to incite anger; exasperation |
recalcitrant | defiant of authority; difficult to manage |
secrete | to ensconce, conceal, or stow |
specious | seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive |
squander | to waste by spending or using irresponsibly |
tirade | a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation |
vexation | annoyance or irritation |