Princeton's Hit Parade 300 and Beyond 130 5/6

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1. alloy to commingle; to debase by mixing with 31. occult hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
something inferior
32. pedestrian commonplace, trite, unremarkable,
2. appropriate to take for one's own use; to confiscate quotidian
3. arrest, to suspend; to engage; holding one's 33. pied multicolored, usually in blotches
arresting attention
34. pine to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn
4. august majestic, venerable
35. plastic moldable, pliable, not rigid
5. bent leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency
36. pluck courage, spunk, fortitude
6. broach to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk
37. prize to pry; to press or force with a lever;
about
something taken by force, spoils
7. brook to tolerate; to endure; to countenance
38. quail to lose courage; to turn frightened
8. cardinal major, as in cardinal sin
39. qualify to limit
9. chauvinist a blindly devoted patriot
40. rail to complain about bitterly
10. color to change as if by dyeing, i.e. to distort, gloss,
41. rent (past torn; an opening or tear caused by such
or affect (usually the first)
tense of rend)
11. consequential pompous, self-important (primary definitions
42. sap a fool or nitwit
are: logically following; important)
12. damp to diminish the intensity or check the 43. sap to enervate or weaken the vitality of
vibration of a sound 44. scurvy contemptible, despicable
13. die a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die 45. singular exceptional, unusual, odd
shop
46. stand a group of trees
14. essay to test or try; to attempt; to experiment
47. steep to saturate or completely soak
15. exact to demand; to call for; to require; to take
48. strut the supporting structural cross-part of a
16. fell inhumanely cruel
wing
17. fell v. to cause to fall by striking 49. table to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from
18. flag to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to consideration
decline 50. tender to proffer or offer
19. flip sarcastic, impertinent 51. waffle to equivocate; to change one's position
20. ford to wade across the shallow part of a river or 52. wag wit, joker
stream
21. grouse to complain or grumble

22. guy a rope, cord, or cable attached to something

as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce
using a guy:
23. intimate to imply, suggest, or insinuate

24. list to lilt or lean to one side

25. lumber to move heavily and clumsily

26. meet fitting, proper

27. milk to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of

28. mince to pronounce or speak affectedly; to

euphemize; to speak too carefully.
Also, to take tiny steps; to tiptoe
29. nice exacting, fastidious, extremely precise

30. obtain to be established, accepted, or customary