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Hit Parade Week 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| concilatory | appeasing; soothing; showing willingness to reconcile |
| incontrovertible | indisputable; not open to question |
| indict | officially charge with wrongdoing or a crime |
| litigious | prone to engage in lawsuits |
| partisan (adj.) | devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause |
| parity | equality, as in amount, status, or value (antonym: disparity) |
| rectitude | moral uprightness; righteousness |
| remiss | lax in attending to duty; negligent |
| repudiate | to reject the validity or authority of |
| sanctimonious | fiegning piety or righteousness |
| scrupulous | principled, having a strong sense of right and wrong; conscientious and exacting |
| solicitous | concerned |
| substantiate | to support with proof or evidence; verify |
| veracity | adherence to the truth; truthfulness |
| vindicate | to free from blame |
| cajole | to urge with repeated apeals, teasing, or flattery |
| chicanery | trickery |
| obsequious | fawning and servile |
| sycophant | insincere, obsequious flatterer |
| eminent | distinguished; prominent |
| extol | to praise highly |
| magnanimous | courageously or generously noble in mind and heart |
| defunct | no longer existing or functioning |
| quell | to put down forcibly; suppress |
| raze | to level to the ground; demolish |
| squelch | to crush as if by trampling; squash |
| supplant | to usurp the place of, especially through intrigue or underhanded tactics |
| stymie | to thwart or stump |
| abase | to lower in rank, prestige, or esteem |
| deride | to mock contemptuously |
| derogatory | insulting |
| disparage | to belittle |
| effrontery | brazen boldeness; presumptuousness |
| ignominy | great personal dishonor or humiliation; disgraceful conduct |
| impugn | to attack as false or questionable |
| mar | to damage, especially in a disfiguring way |
| pejorative (adj.) | disparaging, belittling |
| vex | to annoy or bother; to perplex |
| vindictive | disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful |