Beyond the Hit Parade Group 2, Princeton Review
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| adjure | to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid
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| adumbrate | to foreshadow vaguely or imply; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow
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| anathema | a solemn or religious curse; a person or thing that is loathed
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| anodyne | soothing; or something that comforts or soothes pain
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| apogee | farthest or highest point; zenith
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| apostate | one who abandons long-held religious or political beliefs
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| apotheosis | glorification to godliness; an exalted example or a model of perfection
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| asperity | severity
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| asseverate | to assert
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| assiduous | diligent; hardworking
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| augury | omen
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| bellicose | belligerent (hostile/aggressive); pugnacious
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| calumniate | to slander or make false accusation
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| captious | disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument
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| cavil | to find fault without good reason
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| celerity | speed, alacrity THINK accelerate
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| chimera | an illusion
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| contumacious | insubordinate, rebellious
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| debacle | fiasco
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| denouement | an outcome or solution
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| descry | to discriminate or discern
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| desuetude | disuse (the state of not being used)
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| desultory | random; aimless; having a lack of plan or purpose
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| diaphanous | transparent, gauzy (thin)
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| diffident | reserved, shy, THINK lack in confidence
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| dirge | a song of grief
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| encomium | glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric (public speech), eulogy
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| eschew | to shun or avoid
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| excoriate | to censure or upbraid (scold)
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| execrate | to denounce; to declare to be evil
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| exegesis | critical examination, explication (to unravel or unfold)
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| expiate | to atone or make amends for
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| extirpate | to destroy
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| fatuous | silly
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| fractious | quarrelsome, rebellious
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| gainsay | to deny or oppose
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| heterodox | unorthodox, heretical
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| imbroglio | embarrassing situation
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| indefatigable | not easily exhaustible, dogged (has persistence)
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| ineluctable | certain, inevitable
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| inimitable | one of a kind
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| insouciant | carefree
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| inveterate | deep rooted
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| jejune | vapid (not interesting); childish
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| lubricious | lewd, greasy
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| mendicant | a beggar, supplicant (supplicate: to beg)
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| meretricious | cheap
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| minatory | menacing
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| nadir | low point, perigee
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| nonplussed | baffled
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| obstreperous | noisily and stubbornly defiant
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| ossified | tending to become more rigid, conventional,sterile with age; literally, turned into bone
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| palliate | to make something seem less serious
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| panegyric | formal praise, eulogy
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| parsimonious | cheap
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| peroration | the concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech
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| plangent | pounding, thundering
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| prolix | long-winded, verbose
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| propitiate | to appease
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| puerile | childish
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| puissance | power
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| pusillanimous | cowardly, pussy
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| remonstrate | to protest, object
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| sagacious | having sound judgment
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| salacious | lustful
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| salutary | remedial, wholesome
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| sanguine | cheerful, confident, optimistic
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| saturnine | gloomy, dark
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| sententious | aphoristic or moralistic
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| stentorian | extremely loud and powerful
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| stygian | gloomy, dark
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| sycophant | toady, servile; parasite
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| tendentious | biased
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| timorous | timid
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| tyro | novice
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| vitiate | to corrupt
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| voluble | fluent
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