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| Approbation | (n.) the expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval. Synonyms: commendation, sanction. Antonyms: disapproval, condemnation, censure. |
| Assuage | (v.) to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench. Synonyms: mitigate, alleviate, slake, allay. Antonyms: intensify, aggravate, exacerbate. |
| Coalition | (n.) a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose. Synonyms: alliance, league, federation, combine. Antonym: splinter group. |
| Decadence | (n.) decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self-indulgence. Synonyms: degeneration, corruption. Antonyms: rise, growth, development, maturation. |
| Elicit | (v.) to draw forth, bring out from some source ( such as another person). Synonyms: call forth, evoke, extract, educe. Antonyms: repress, quash, squelch, stifle. |
| Expostulate | (v.) to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning. Synonyms: protest, remonstrate, complain. |
| Hackneyed | (adj.) used so often as to lack freshness or originality. Synonyms: banal, trite, commonplace, corny. Antonyms: new, fresh, novel, original. |
| Hiatus | (n.) a gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing). Synonyms: pause, lacuna. Antonyms: continuity, continuation. |
| Innuendo | (n.) a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense). Synonyms: insinuation, intimation. Antonym: direct statement. |
| Intercede | (v.) to plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement. Synonyms: intervene, mediate. |
| Jaded | (adj.) wearied, worn-out, dulled (in the sense of being satiated by excessive indulgence). Synonyms: sated, surfeited, cloyed. Antonyms: unspoiled, uncloyed. |
| Lurid | (adj.) causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in color; terrible or passionate in intensity or lack or restraint. Synonyms: gruesome, gory, grisly, baleful, ghastly. Antonyms: pleasant, attractive, appealing, wholesome. |
| Meritorious | (adj.) worthy, deserving recognition and praise. Synonyms: praiseworthy, laudable, commendable. Antonyms: blameworthy, reprehensible, discreditable. |
| Petulant | (adj.) peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset. Synonyms: irritable, testy, waspish. |
| Prerogative | (n.) a special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence. Synonyms: perquisite, perk. |
| Provincial | (adj.) pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook, countrified in the sense of being limited and backward; of a simple, plain design that originated in the countryside; (n.) a person with a narrow point of view; a person from an outlying area; a soldier from a province or colony. Synonyms: (adj.) narrow-minded, parochial, insular, naive. Antonyms: (adj.) cosmopolitan, catholic, broad- minded. |
| Simulate | (v.) to make a pretense of, imitate; to show the outer signs of. Synonyms: feign, pretend, affect. |
| Transcend | (v.) to rise above or beyond, exceed. Synonyms: surpass, outstrip. |
| Umbrage | (n.) shade cast by trees; foilage giving shade; an overshadowing influence or power; offense, resentment,a vague suspicion. Synonyms: irritation, pique, annoyance. Antonyms: pleasure, delight, satisfaction. |
| Unctuous | (adj.) excessivly smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety; fatty, oily; pliable. Synonyms: mealymouthed, servile, fawning, greasy. Antonyms: gruff, blunt. |
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