Beyond Hit Parade-More Killer Vocab Group 2

To renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

To foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

A solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accuresed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

Soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

Farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith

One who abandons long held religious or political convictions

Deification, glorification to godlikeness, an exhaulted example' a model of excellence or perfection

Severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability

To aver, allege, assert

Diligent, hard-working, sedulous

Omen, portent

Belligerent, pugnacious, war-like

To slander, make a false accusation; calumny means slander, aspersion

Disposed to point out trivial faults, ccalculated to confuse or entrap in argument

To find fault without good reason

Speed, alacrity; think accelerate

An illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster

Insubordinate, rebellious: contumely means insult, scorn, aspersion

Rout, fiasco, complete failure: My first attempt at a souffle was a total debacle.

An outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

To discriminate or discern

Disuse: After years of desuetude, my French skills were finally put to use.

Random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose: Her desultory performance impressed no one.

Transparent, gauzy

Reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence: Surprisingly, the CEO of the company had been a diffident youth.

A song of grief or lamentation: We listened to the slow, funereal dirge.

Glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

To shun or avoid: She chose to eschew the movie theatre, preferring to watch DVDs at home.

To cesure scathingly, to upbraid

Denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil

Critical examination, explication

To atone or make amensd for: Pia Zadora has expiated her movie career by good works and charity.

To destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind

Silly, inanely foolish: I would ignore such a fatuous comment.

Quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

To deny, dispute, contradict, oppose

unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic

Difficult or embarrassing situation

Not easily exhaustable; tireless, dogged

Certain, inevitable

One of a kind, peerless

Unconcerned, carefree, heedles

Deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

Vapid, uninteresting, nugatory, childish, immiture, puerile

Lewd wanton, greasy, slippery

A beggar, supplicant

Cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy, attracting by false show

Menacing, threatening (reminds you of minotaur, a threatening creature indeed)

Low point, perigee

Baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think

noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous

Tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally turned into bone

To make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less sever or intense

Formal praise, eulogy, ecomium; panegyrical means expressing elaborate praise

Cheap, miserly: A parsimonious person parses out their money with great difficulty.

Transparent, easy to understand, limpid

The concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

Pounding, thundering, resounding

Long-winded, verbose; Prolixity means verbosity: Mikhail Gorbachev is famous for his prolixity.

To appease; to conciliate; propitious means auspicious, favorable

Childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

Power, strength; puissant means powerful, strong: The senator delivered a puissant speech to the convention.

Cowardly, craven

To protest, object

having sound judgment; perceptive, wise, like a sage

Lustful, lascivious, bawdy

Remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

Cheerful, confident, optimistic

Gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

Aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively

Extremely loud and powerful

Gloomy, dark

Toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite

Biased; showing marked tendencies

Timid, fearful, diffident

Novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

To corrupt, debase, spoil, make infective

Fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language