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Hit Parade Week 2
Question | Answer |
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concilatory | appeasing; soothing; showing willingness to reconcile |
incontrovertible | indisputable; not open to question |
indict | officially charge with wrongdoing or a crime |
litigious | prone to engage in lawsuits |
partisan (adj.) | devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause |
parity | equality, as in amount, status, or value (antonym: disparity) |
rectitude | moral uprightness; righteousness |
remiss | lax in attending to duty; negligent |
repudiate | to reject the validity or authority of |
sanctimonious | fiegning piety or righteousness |
scrupulous | principled, having a strong sense of right and wrong; conscientious and exacting |
solicitous | concerned |
substantiate | to support with proof or evidence; verify |
veracity | adherence to the truth; truthfulness |
vindicate | to free from blame |
cajole | to urge with repeated apeals, teasing, or flattery |
chicanery | trickery |
obsequious | fawning and servile |
sycophant | insincere, obsequious flatterer |
eminent | distinguished; prominent |
extol | to praise highly |
magnanimous | courageously or generously noble in mind and heart |
defunct | no longer existing or functioning |
quell | to put down forcibly; suppress |
raze | to level to the ground; demolish |
squelch | to crush as if by trampling; squash |
supplant | to usurp the place of, especially through intrigue or underhanded tactics |
stymie | to thwart or stump |
abase | to lower in rank, prestige, or esteem |
deride | to mock contemptuously |
derogatory | insulting |
disparage | to belittle |
effrontery | brazen boldeness; presumptuousness |
ignominy | great personal dishonor or humiliation; disgraceful conduct |
impugn | to attack as false or questionable |
mar | to damage, especially in a disfiguring way |
pejorative (adj.) | disparaging, belittling |
vex | to annoy or bother; to perplex |
vindictive | disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful |