Vocab Unit 1 Level F

Question 1

Assuage

Answer 1

Verb

To make easier or milder, relieve, to quiet, calm, to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench

Question 2

Coalition

Answer 2

Noun

A combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose

Question 3

Decadence

Answer 3

Noun

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

Question 4

Elicit

Answer 4

Verb

To draw forth, bringing out from some source (such as another person)

Question 5

Expostulate

Answer 5

Verb

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

Question 6

Hackneyed

Answer 6

Adj.

Used so often as to lack freshness or originality

Question 7

Hiatus

Answer 7

Noun

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

Question 8

Innuendo

Answer 8

Noun

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

Question 9

Intercede

Answer 9

Verb

To plead on behalf of someone else, to serve as a third party or go between in a disagreement

Question 10

Jaded

Answer 10

Adj.

Wearied, worn-out, dulled (in the sense of being sustained by excessive indulgence)

Question 11

Lurid

Answer 11

Adj.
Causing shock, horror, or revulsion, sensational, pale or sallow in color, terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint

Question 12

Meritorious

Answer 12

Adj.

Worthy, deserving recognition and praise

Question 13

Petulant

Answer 13

Adj.

Peevish, annoyed by truffles, easily irritated and upset

Question 14

Prerogative

Answer 14

Noun

A special right or privilege, a special quality showing excellence

Question 15

Provincial

Answer 15

Adj.
Pertaining to an outlying area, local, narrow mind or outlook, countrified in the sense of being limited and backward, of a simple, plain design that originated in the countryside
Noun
A person with a narrow point of view, a person from an outlying area, a soldier from a providence or colony

Question 16

Simulate

Answer 16

Verb

To make pretense of, imitate, to show outer signs of

Question 17

Transcend

Answer 17

Verb

To rise above or beyond, exceed

Question 18

Umbrage

Answer 18

Noun

To shade by trees, foliage giving shade, an overshadowing influence of power, offense, resentment, a vague suspicion

Question 19

Unctuous

Answer 19

Adj.
Excessively smooth or smug, trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity or piety, fatty, oily, pliable

Question 20

Approbation

Answer 20

Noun

The expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise, official opproval