Vocabulary 1 Tyler is short Flashcards
The expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval.
Approbation
Commendation, sanction
To make easier or milder, relive; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench.
Assuage
Mitigate, alleviate, slake, allay
A combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose.
Coalition
Alliance, league, federation, combine
Decline; decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self-indulgence.
Decadence
Degeneration, corruption
To draw forth, bring out from some source (such as another person).
Elicit
Call forth, evoke, extract, educe
To attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning.
Expostulate
Protest, remonstrate, complain
Used so often as to lack freshness or originality.
Hackneyed
banal, trite, commonplace, corny
A gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing).
Hiatus
Pause, lacuna
A hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)
Innuendo
Insinuation, intimation
To plead on behalf of someone else.
Intercede
Intervene, mediate
Peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset.
Petulant
Irritable, testy, waspish
Wearied, worn out, dulled (in the sense of being satiated by excessive indulgence).
Jaded
Sated, surfeited, cloyed
Causing shock, horror, or revulsion.
Lurid
Gruesome, gory, grisly.
Worthy, deserving recognition and praise
Meritorious
Praiseworthy, laudable.
Pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook.
Provincial
narrow-minded, parochial, insular.
