Beyond Hit Parade-Secondary Meanings Group 1

To commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; unalloyed means pure

To take for one's own use, confiscate

To suspend; to engage; holding one's attention: as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portait

Majestic, venerable

Leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency: He had a naturally artistic bent.

To bring up, announce, begin to talk about

To tolerate, endure, countenence

Major, as in cardinal sin

A blindly devoted patriot

To change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss or affect (usually the first): Yellow journalism colored the truth.

Pompous, self-important (Primary definitions are: logically following; important)

To diminish the intensity or check the vibration of sound

A tool used for shaping

To test or try; attempt, experiment: The newly born fawn essayed a few wobbly steps.

To demand, call for, require, take: Even a victorious war exacts a heavy price.

Inhumanely cruel: Fell beasts surrounded the explorer

To cause to fall by striking: The lumberjacks arrived and fell many trees.

To sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline: Think of a flag on a windless day, as in her flagging spirts.

Sarcastic, imoertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark

To wade across a shallow part of a river or stream

To complain or grumble

A rope, cord, or cable attatched to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: Think guide.

To imply, suggest, or insinuate: Are you intimating that I cannot be trusted?

To tilt or lean to one side

To move heavly and clumsily

Fitting, proper: It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the hall of fame.

To exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of

Pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully. Also to take tiny steps, tiptoe

exacting, fastidious, extremely precise: He made a nice distinction between the two cases.

To be established , accepted, or customary: Those standards no longer obtain.

Hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

Commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian

Multicolored , usually in blotches: The Pied Piper of Hamlin was so called because of his multicolored coat.

To lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn

Moldable

Courage, spunk, fortitude: plucky fighters

To pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils

To complain about bitterly

Torn, past of rend: He rent his garments; an opening or tear caused by such; a large rent in the fabric

To lose courage; turn frightened

To limit: Let me qualify that statement.

To enervate or weaken the vitality of

Contemptable, despicable: He was a scurvy old reprobate.

exceptional, unusual, odd: He was singularly well-suited for the job.

A group of trees

To saturate or completely soak, sa in let a tea bag steep: She was steeped in esoteric knowledge.

The supporting structural cross part-part of a wing

To remove (as a parliamentary mtion) from consideration: They tabled the motion and will consider it again later.

To proffer or offer: He tendered his resignation.

To equivocate; to change one's position: His detractors say that the president waffles too much;he can never make up his mind.

Wit, joker: Groucho marx was a well-known wag.