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Sadlier Level F Unit
Sadlier Oxford Vocabulary Level F Unit 1
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| approbation | expression of appoval, praise, official approval, commendation, sanction |
| assuage | to make easier, milder, relieve, to quiet, calm, satisfy, quench, mitigate, allay |
| coalition | a combination, union, or merger for some specific reason, alliance, league, federation |
| decadence | decline, decay or deterioration, excessibve self indulgence, degeneration, corruption |
| elicit | to draw forth, bring out from some source, call forth, extract, evoke |
| expostulate | to attempr to dissuade someone from some cource or decision by earnest reasoning,protest, complain |
| hackneyed | used so often to lack freshness or originality, , banal, trite, commonplace, corny |
| hiatus | a gap, opening, break, pause |
| innuendo | a hint, indirect suggestion, insinuation, intimation |
| intercede | to plead on behalf of someone else, to serve as a go-between, intervene, mediate |
| jaded | wearied, worn-out, dulled in the sense of being satisfied by excessibe indulgence, sated, surfeited, cloyed |
| lurid | causing shock, horor, revulsion, sensational gruesom, gory, grisly, ghastly, baleful |
| meritorious | worthy, deservbing recognition, praise |
| petulant | annoyed by small things, easily irritated, irritable, testy |
| perogative | a special right or priviledge, perk |
| provincial | narrow-minded, parochial, insular, naive, pertaining to an outlying area, narrow in moind or outlook |
| simulate | to make a pretense of, imitate, make-believe, feign, pretend |
| transcend | to rise above or beyond, exceed, surpass |
| umbrage | shade cast by trees, offense, resentment, to take umbrage is to take offense to sometheing said or done, annoyance |
| unctuous | excesslively smooth , trying to hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, mealymouthed - a suck-up |