Hit Parade 3
Vocabulary Cards: 53
- 1.
- deviating from the norm
- 2.
- belonging to another time
- removed from natural chronological context
- 3.
- abnormal
- deviating from the common or general type
- 4.
- abnormality
- deviation from the normal order, form, or rule
- 5.
- one who practices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religious devotion
- 6.
- lacking originality
- commonplace
- 7.
- matching
- corresponding or proportionate in degree, size or amount
- 8.
- conflicting
- dissonant or harsh in sound
- 9.
- the state or act of extending or being swollen out of shape
- 10.
- ornate
- ruddy
- flowery
- 11.
- uniform
- made up of elements that are similar in nature or kind
- 12.
- exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
- 13.
- irrelevant
- only touching briefly upon the topic at hand
- 14.
- to moderate or soothe
- 15.
- moderate
- marked by restrain & a lack of extremes
- 16.
- equilibrium
- equal distriubtion of weight
- 17.
- traveling
- itinerant
- peripatetic
- 18.
- formidable
- worthy
- 19.
- to indicate
- to show clearly
- 20.
- to upbraid
- to centure scathingly
- 21.
- explication
- critical examination
- 22.
- model
- paradigm
- typical or standard speciman
- 23.
- to descant
- to discourse
- to discuss or wrrite about at length
- 24.
- to tone or make amends for
- 25.
- to argue earnestly in order to dissuade, correct or proest
- 26.
- to purify
- to censor
- to remove obscenity
- 27.
- to cut out or extirpate
- 28.
- existing
- not destroyed or lost
- 29.
- to exterminate
- to destroy
- to cut out
- to exscind
- 30.
- inactive
- dormant
- untilled
- 31.
- silly
- inanely foolish
- 32.
- apropos
- well-chosen
- suitably expressed
- apt
- 33.
- malodorous
- stinking
- smelly
- 34.
- to shackle
- to put in chains
- 35.
- to incite
- to rouse
- 36.
- to avert
- to act in a way to hinder
- to exclude or prevent an action
- 37.
- repudiate
- to renounce
- disallow
- 38.
- recalcitrant
- intractable
- not willing to yield or comply
- 39.
- to deny, dispute, contradict, to oppose
- 40.
- crude
- awkward
- tasteless
- 41.
- chicanery
- trickery
- duplicity
- artfulness
- 42.
- to torment
- to distress
- to create stress
- EX: 'a harrowing experience.."
- 43.
- unorthodox
- iconoclastic
- heretical
- 44.
- the art of preaching
- 45.
- sermon or morally instructive lecture
- 46.
- heterodox
- heretical
- attaching chereshed beliefs
- 47.
- ignoble
- dishonorable
- shameful
- undignified
- 48.
- difficult or embarressing situation
- 49.
- to attribute to a cause or source
- to ascribe
- 50.
- lazy
- listless
- torpid
- 51.
- inevitable
- certain
- 52.
- credulous
- guileless
- naive
- trusting
- 53.
- innate
- ingrained within one's nature
- instrinsic
- firmly establish