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Sadlier Oxford Vocabulary Level F Unit 1

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