eng vocab Tools A B intercede to plead on behalf of someone else hackneyed used so often as to lack freshness approbation the expression of approval or favorable opinion innuendo a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (in a derogatory sense) coalition a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose elicit to draw forth, bring out from some sorce hiatus a gap, opening, or break assuage to make easier or milder, appease, satisfy decadence decline, decay, or deterioration expostulate to attempt to dissuade by earnest reasoning simulate to make a pretense of, imitate jaded wearied, worn-out, dulled (satiated by excessive indulgence) umbrage foliage giving shade, an overshadowing power, offense, a vague suspicion prerogative a speacial right or priviledge, special quality showing excellence lurid causing shock or horror, sensational, pale in color, terrible in intensity transcend to rise above or beyond, exceed provincial local, narrow-minded, simple; person with a narrow point of view petulant peevish, easily irritated and upset unctuous fatty and oily, smooth or smug, trying too hard to give an impression of sincerity meritorious worthy, deserving praise