Unit 1

Question 1

Approbation

Answer 1

N. The expression approval or favorable opinion, praise; office approval

Syn: Commendation, sanction
Ant: Disapproval, condemnation, censure

Question 2

Assuage

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Coalition

Answer 3

N. A combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose

Syn: Alliance, league, federation, combine
Ant: Splinter group

Question 4

Decadence

Answer 4

N. Decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self-indulgence

Syn: degeneration, corruption
Ant: Rise, growth, development, maturation.

Question 5

Elicit

Answer 5

V. To draw forth, bring out from some source (such as another person)

Syn: call forth, evoke. extract, educe.
Ant: repress, quash, squelch, stifle

Question 6

Expostulate

Answer 6

V. To attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning

Syn: Protest, remonstrate, complain

Question 7

Hackneyed

Answer 7

Adj. Used so often as to lack freshness or originality

Syn: Banal, trite, commonplace, corny
Ant: New, fresh, novel, original

Question 8

Hiatus

Answer 8

N. A gap, opening, break (in sense of having an element missing)

Syn: Pause, Lacuna
Ant: Continuity, Continuation

Question 9

Innuendo

Answer 9

N. A hint indirect suggestion or reference (often in a derogatory sense)

Syn: Insinuation, intimation
Ant: Direct statement

Question 10

Intercede

Answer 10

V. To plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement

Syn: intervene, mediate

Question 11

Jaded

Answer 11

Adj. Wearied, worn-out, dulled (in sense of being satiated by excessive indulgence)

Syn: sated, surfeited, cloyed
Ant: unspoiled, uncloyed

Question 12

Lurid

Answer 12

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.

Question 13

Meritorious

Answer 13

Adj. Worthy, deserving of recognition and praise

Syn: Praise worth, laudable, commendable
Ant: Blameworthy, reprehensible, discreditable.

Question 14

Petulant

Answer 14

Adj. peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset

Syn: irritable, testy, waspish
Ant: even-tempered, placid, serene, amiable

Question 15

Pererogative

Answer 15

N. A special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence

Syn: Perquisite, perk

Question 16

Provincial

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Simulate

Answer 17

V. To make a pretense of imitate; to show outer signs of.

Syn: feign, pretend, affect

Question 18

Transcend

Answer 18

to rise above beyond, exceed

Syn: Surpass, outstrip

Question 19

Umbrage

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Unctuous

Answer 20

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