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Vocab lesson 1
Question | Answer |
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Approbation | The expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval |
Assuage | To make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench |
Coalition | Aa combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose |
Decadence | Decline,decay,or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self- indulgence |
Elicit | To draw forth, bring out form some source |
Expostulate | To attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning |
Hackneyed | Used to often as to lack freshness or originality |
Hiatus | A gap opening, breaking |
Innuendo | A hint, indirect suggestion, or reference |
Intercede | To plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement |
Jaded | Wearied, worn out, dulled |
Lurid | Causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or swallow in color; terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint |
Meritorious | Worthy, deserving recognition and praise |
Petulant | Peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset |
Prerogative | Aa special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence |
Provincial | Pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook, countrified in the sense of being limited and backward; of a simple, plain design that originated in the countryside; a person with a narrow point of view |
Simulate | To make a pretense of, imitate; to show the outer signs of |
Transcend | To rise above or beyond, exceed |
Umbrage | Shade cast by trees; foilage giving shade; an overshadowing influence or power; offense, resentment; a vague suspicion |
Unctuous | Excessively smooth orsmug; trying too hard to give an impression of eanestness, sincerity, or piety, fatty, oily, pliable |