Unit 1 Flashcards
Approbation
N. The expression approval or favorable opinion, praise; office approval
Syn: Commendation, sanction
Ant: Disapproval, condemnation, censure
Assuage
V. To make easier or milder relieve quiet calm put an end to appease satisfy quench
Syn: Mitigate, alleviate, slake, allay
Ant: Intensify, aggravate, exacerbate
Coalition
N. A combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose
Syn: Alliance, league, federation, combine
Ant: Splinter group
Decadence
N. Decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self-indulgence
Syn: degeneration, corruption
Ant: Rise, growth, development, maturation.
Elicit
V. To draw forth, bring out from some source (such as another person)
Syn: call forth, evoke. extract, educe.
Ant: repress, quash, squelch, stifle
Expostulate
V. To attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning
Syn: Protest, remonstrate, complain
Hackneyed
Adj. Used so often as to lack freshness or originality
Syn: Banal, trite, commonplace, corny
Ant: New, fresh, novel, original
Hiatus
N. A gap, opening, break (in sense of having an element missing)
Syn: Pause, Lacuna
Ant: Continuity, Continuation
Innuendo
N. A hint indirect suggestion or reference (often in a derogatory sense)
Syn: Insinuation, intimation
Ant: Direct statement
Intercede
V. To plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement
Syn: intervene, mediate
Jaded
Adj. Wearied, worn-out, dulled (in sense of being satiated by excessive indulgence)
Syn: sated, surfeited, cloyed
Ant: unspoiled, uncloyed
Lurid
Adj. Causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensation; pale or sallow in color; terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint
Syn: Gruesome, Gory, baleful, ghastly
Ant: Pleasant, Attractive, appealing, wholesome.
Meritorious
Adj. Worthy, deserving of recognition and praise
Syn: Praise worth, laudable, commendable
Ant: Blameworthy, reprehensible, discreditable.
Petulant
Adj. peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset
Syn: irritable, testy, waspish
Ant: even-tempered, placid, serene, amiable
Pererogative
N. A special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence
Syn: Perquisite, perk
Provincial
Adj. Pertaining to an outlying area, local; narrow in mind or outlook, countrified in the sense of being limited and backward.
Syn: Narrow minded, parochial, insular, naive
Ant: cosmopolitan, catholic, broadminded
N. a person with a narrow point-of-view
Simulate
V. To make a pretense of imitate; to show outer signs of.
Syn: feign, pretend, affect
Transcend
to rise above beyond, exceed
Syn: Surpass, outstrip
Umbrage
N. Shade cast by trees; folliage giving shade; an overshadowing influence or power; offense; resentment; a vague suspicion
Syn: Irritation, pique annoyance
Ant: Pleasure, delight, satisfaction
Unctuous
Adj. excessively smooth or smug trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity or piety; fatty, oily, pliable.
Syn: mealy mouthed, servile, fawning, greasy.
Ant: Gruff, blunt
