Vocab Week 1

Question 0

To make easier or milder, relieve, to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench

Answer 0

Assuage

Question 1

The expression of approval of favorable opinion; official approval

Answer 1

Approbation

Question 2

A combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose

Answer 2

Coalition

Question 3

Decline, decay, or determination; a condition or period of decline, decay; excessive self indulgence

Answer 3

Decadence

Question 4

To draw forth, bring out from some source( such as another person)

Answer 4

Elicit(v)

Question 5

To attempt to dissuade someone from some course of action of decision by earnest reasoning

Answer 5

Expostulate

Question 6

Used so often as to lack freshness or originality

Answer 6

Hackneyed

Question 7

A gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing)

Answer 7

Hiatus

Question 8

Hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often a derogatory sense)

Answer 8

Innuendo

Question 9

To plead on behalf is someone else, to serve as a third party of go between in a disagreement

Answer 9

Intercede