Vocabulary 1 Flashcards
Assuage
To make easier or milder, relieve, to quiet, calm, to put an end to, appease. Satisfy, quench
Coalition
A 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 from some source
Approbation
The expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval
Expostulate
To attempt to dissuade someone from course or decision by earnest reasoning
Hackneyed
Used so often as to lack freshness or originality
Hiatus
A gap, opening, break
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
A special right or privilege; a special quality showing exellence
Provincial
Pertaining to an outlying area, local, narrow in mind or outlook, countrified in the sense of being limited and backward; a person with a narrow point of view, a person from an outlying area, a soldier from a province or colony.
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, foliage giving shade; an overshadowing influence or power, offense, resentment, a vague suspicion
Unctuous
Excessively smooth or smug, trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety, fatty, oily, pliable
