Princeton's Hit Parade 300 and Beyond 130 6/6

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1. abjure to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to 29. excoriate to censure scathingly, to upbraid
avoid
30. execrate to denounce, to feel loathing for, to curse, to
2. adumbrate to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest declare to be evil
or outline sketchily; to obscure or
31. exegesis critical examination, explication
overshadow
32. expiate to atone or make amends for
3. anathema a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse;
accursed or thoroughly loathed person or 33. extirpate to destroy, to exterminate, to cut out, to
thing exscind
4. anodyne soothing; something that assuages or allays 34. fatuous silly, inanely foolish
pain or comforts
35. fractious quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory,
5. apogee farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith irritable
6. apostate one who abandons long-held religious or 36. gainsay to deny, to dispute, to contradict, to oppose
political convictions
37. heterodox unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic
7. apotheosis deification' glorification to godliness; an
exalted example; a model of excellence or 38. imbroglio difficult or embarrassing situation
perfection 39. indefatigable not easily exhaustible; tireless, dogged
8. asperity severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; 40. ineluctable certain, inevitable
acrimony, irritability
41. inimitable one of a kind, peerless
9. asseverate to aver, allege, or assert
42. insouciant unconcerned, carefree, heedless
10. assiduous diligent, hard-working, sedulous
43. inveterate deep rooted, ingrained, habitual
11. augury omen, portent
44. jejune vapid, uninteresting, nugatory; childish,
12. bellicose belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
immature, puerile
13. calumniate to slander, to make a false accusation 45. lubricious lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
14. captious disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated 46. mendicant a beggar, supplicant
to confuse or entrap in argument
47. meretricious cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy;
15. cavil to find fault without good reason
attracting by false show
16. celerity speed, alacrity 48. minatory menacing, threatening
17. chimera an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire- 49. nadir low point, perigee
breathing she-monster
50. nonplussed baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do
18. contumacious insubordinate, rebellious
or think
19. debacle rout, fiasco, complete failure 51. obstreperous noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively
20. denouement an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a boisterous
plot 52. ossified tending to become more rigid, conventional,
21. descry to discriminate or discern sterile, and reactionary with age; literally,
turned into bone
22. desuetude disuse
53. palliate to make something seem less serious, to
23. desultory random; aimless; marked by a lack of plan or gloss over, to make less severe or intense
purpose
54. panegyric formal praise, eulogy, encomium;
24. diaphanous transparent, gauzy
55. parsimonious cheap, miserly
25. diffident reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-
confidence 56. pellucid transparent, easy to understand, limpid

26. dirge a song of grief or lamentation 57. peroration the concluding part of a speech; flowery,
rhetorical speech
27. encomium glowing an enthusiastic praise; panegyric;
tribute, eulogy 58. plangent pounding, thundering, resounding

28. eschew to shun or avoid 59. prolix long-winded, verbose

60. propitiate to appease; to conciliate

61. puerile childish, immature, jejune, nugatory

62. puissance power, strength

63. pusillanimous cowardly, craven

64. remonstrate to protest, to object

65. sagacious having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage

66. salacious lustful, lascivious, bawdy

67. salutary remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

68. sanguine cheerful, confident, optimistic

69. saturnine gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

70. sententious aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively

71. stentorian extremely loud and powerful

72. stygian gloomy, dark

73. sycophant toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite

74. tendentious biased; showing marked tendencies

75. timorous timid, fearful, diffident

76. tyro novice, greenhorn, rank amateur

77. vitiate to corrupt, to debase, to spoil, to make ineffective

78. voluble fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language