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Vocabulary 1 H eng.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Approbation | The expression or approval or favorable opinion, praise;official approval |
| Assuage | To make eaiser or milder, relieve; to quite, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench |
| Coalition | a combination, union, or merger fir some specific purpose |
| Decadence | Decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self-indulgence |
| Elicit | To draw fourth, bring out from some source(such as another person) |
| Expostulate | To attempt to dissuade someone from some course of decision by earnest reasoning |
| Hackneyed | Used so often as to lack freshness or originality |
| Hiatus | A gap, opening, break(in the sense of having an element missing) |
| Innuendo | A hint, indirect suggestion, or reference(often in a derogatory sense) |
| 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 (in the same of being satiated by excessive indulgence) |
| Lurid | causeing shock, horror,or revulsior; sensational;pale or sallow in color; terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint |
| Meritorious | Worthy, deserving recongnition and praise |
| Petulate | Peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset |
| Prerogative | A special right or privlage; a special quality showing excellence |
| Provincail | pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook, contrified in the sense of being limited and backward; of a simple, plain design that originated in the countryside; a person with a narrow point of view; a person from an outlying area; |
| Simulate | To make a pretense of, imitate; to show the outer signs of |
| Transcend | a rise above or beyond, exceed |
| Umbrage | Shade cast by trees; foliage giving shade;an overshadowing influence or power, offense, resentment; a vauge suspicion |
| Unctuous | Excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety; fatty, oily; pliable |
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