| A | B |
|---|
| approbation | commedation, sanction |
| assuage | mitigate, alleviate, slake, allay |
| coalition | alliance, league, federation, combine |
| decadence | degeneration, corruption |
| elicit | call forth, evoke, extract, educe |
| expostulate | protest, remonstrate, complain |
| hackneyed | banal, trite, commonplace, corny |
| hiatus | pause, lacuna |
| innuendo | insinuation, intimation |
| intercede | intervene, mediate |
| jaded | sated, surfeited, cloyed |
| lurid | gruesome, gory, grisly, baleful, ghastly |
| meritorious | praiseworthy, laudable, commedable |
| petulant | irritable, testy, waspish |
| prerogative | perquisite, perk |
| provincial | narrow-minded, parochial, insular, naive |
| simulate | feigh, pretend, affect |
| transcend | surpass, outstrip |
| umbrage | irritation, pique, annoyance |
| unctuous | mealymouthed, servile, fawning, greasy |
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