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Group 6 Beyond Hit
Beyond the Hit Parade 6
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Graduate
07/29/2009

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runic
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adj. mysterious; magical
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sagacious
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adj. having sound judgement; perceptive; wise
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salutary
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adj. wholesome; causing improvement; favorable to health
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sanctimony
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n. self-righteousness
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sanguine
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adj. cheerful; confident; optimistic
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satiate
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v. to surfeit; to overindulge
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saturnine
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adj. gloomy; dark; sullen; morose
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seine
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n. a large net dragged to catch fish
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seminal
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adj. like a seed; constituting a source; originative
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sententious
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adj. aphoristic or moralistic; tending to moralize excessively
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sidereal
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adj. relating to stars or constellations; astral
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simper
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to smirk, a silly smile
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sinecure
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position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income
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sinuous
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winding; undulating; serpetine
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slake
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to satisfy or quench
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sodden
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soaked or drenched; unimaginative; dull
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solder
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to weld, fuse or join
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sophistry
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fallacious reasoning; faulty logic
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sophomoric
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self-assured though immature; affected; bombastic; lacking maturity
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splenetic
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bad-tempered; irritable
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stanch
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to stop the flow of a fluid
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stentorian
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extremely loud and powerful
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stint
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to restrain; to be sparing or frugal
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stygian
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gloomy; dark
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succor
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assistance; relief in time of distress
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supercilious
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disdainful; arrogant; haughty
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supine
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mentally or morally slack; literally, lying on one's back
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suppliant
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asking humbly; beseeching
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supplicant
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beggar; mendicant
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tamp
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to plug; to drive in or down by a series of blows
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tautology
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a repetition; a redundancy
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tawdry
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cheap; gaudy; showy; tacky; meretricious
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tendentious
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biased; showing marked tendencies
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timorous
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timid; fearful; diffident
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toady
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sycophant; flatterer
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torrid
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scorching; ardent; passionate
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tractable
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docile; obedient; easily led
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travesty
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mockery; caricature; parody
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tumid
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swollen
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turbid
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roiled; muddy
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turgid
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swollen; thick; pompous
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turpitude
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depravity; prurience
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tyro
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novice; rank ameteur
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umbrage
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offense; resentment; pique
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undulate
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to move in wavelike fashion; to fluctuate
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untoward
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perverse; unruly; unseemly
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upbraid
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to scold; to censure; to rebuke; to chastise
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usury
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the practice of charging an exorbitant or illegal rate of interest
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vaunt
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to brag or boast
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venal
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capable of being bought or bribed; mercenary
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venerate
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to revere or worship
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versimilitude
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appearance of truth or reality
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veritable
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authentic; honest-to-goodness
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virago
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a loud, domineering woman; a scold or nag
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vitiate
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to pervert; to debase; to spoil; to make effective
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volubility
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fluency; verbosity; easy use of spoken language
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waft
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to cause to move as if by a light breeze
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welter
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to writhe; to toss about; to be in turmoil
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wend
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to go; to proceed; to walk

"wend one's way home"

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