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Hit Parade Week 4

Hit Parade Week 4

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clandestine done secretively, especially to deceive; surreptitious
ingenuous (antonym: disingenuous) lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness
subterfuge a deceptive strategem or device
surreptitious secretive; sneaky
dearth scarce supply; lack
modicum a small, moderate, or token amount
paucity smallness in number; scarcity
tenuous having little substance or strength; shaky
maverick one who is independent and resists adherence to a group
obstinate stubbornly attached to an opinion or a course of action
tenacity persistance
vigilant on the alert; watchful
extraneous irrelevant; inessential
superfluous extra; unnecessary
synergy combined action or operation
tangential merely touching or slightly connected; only superficially relevant
dirge a funeral hymn or lament
incongruous lacking in harmony; incompatible
sonorous producing a deep or full sound
strident loud, harsh, grating, or shrill
debacle disastrous or ludicrous defeat or failure; fiasco
debilitate impair the strength of; weaken
tumultuous noisy and disorderly
dilatory habitually late
ephemeral lasting for only a brief time
redolent fragrant; aromatic; suggestive
onerous troublesome or oppressive; burdensome
portent indication of something important or calamitous about to occur; omen
prescience knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foreknowledge; foresight
austere strict; without decoration
banal drearily commonplace; predictable; trite
hackneyed worn out through overuse; trite
insipid uninteresting; unchallenging; lacking in taste or savor
prosaic (antonym: poetic) unimaginative; dull
soporific inducing sleep
vapid lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull
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