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Costa vocab list 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Approbation (noun) | approval or praise. Approval, acceptance, assent. |
| Assuage (verb) | make an unpleasant feeling less intense. Alleviate, ease, mitigate. |
| Bucolic (adjective) | relating to the pleasant aspects of countryside and country life. Rustic, rural, pastoral, idyllic. |
| Collusion (noun) | secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy. Conspiracy, complicity, plotting. |
| Elicit (verb) | evoke or draw out a response, answer, or fact from someone. Obtain, evoke, induce. |
| Exacerbate (verb) | make a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling worse. Aggravate, worsen, intensify. |
| Hackneyed (adjective) | lacking significance through being overused; unoriginal and trite. Overused, overdone, clichéd. |
| Hiatus (noun) | a pause or gap in a sequence, series, or process. Pause, break, interval, interruption. |
| Innuendo (noun) | a hint or secret message hidden inside a normal sentence, used to suggest something negative or to tease. Insinuation, implication, intimation. |
| Jaded (adjective) | lacking interest or desire because of experiencing too much of something. Sated, dulled, deadened. |
| Lurid (adjective) | very vivid in color, especially so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect, or causing shock, horror, or revulsion. Bright, vivid, sensationalist, overdramatized. |
| Macabre (adjective) | disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury. Gruesome, grisly, grim, morbid. |
| Paltry (adjective) | small or meager in amount. Meager, insufficient. |
| Pedantic (adjective) | being way too focused on tiny rules or small details that most people don’t care about; like being a “rule follower” to an annoying extreme. Over-exacting, nitpicking, overscrupulous. |
| Petulant (adjective) | childishly sulky or bad-tempered. Peevish, bad-tempered, moody, irritable. |
| Redolent (adjective) | strongly reminiscent or suggestive of, OR fragrant or sweet-smelling. Evocative, reminiscent, fragrant, suggestive. |
| Slough (verb) | shed or remove a layer of dead skin. Exfoliate, shed. |
| Umbrage (noun) | offense or annoyance. Offense, annoyance. |
| Unremitting (adjective) | never relaxing or slackening; incessant. Unrelenting, relentless, continual. |
| Vacillate (verb) | alternate or waver between different opinions or actions; be indecisive. Fluctuate, oscillate, be indecisive. |
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