| A | B |
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| intercede | To plead on behalf of someone else. To serve as a third party or go-b/w in a disagreement |
| hackneyed | used so often as to lack freshness or originality |
| Approbation | the expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval or sanction. |
| innuendo | a hint, indirect suggestion or reference |
| coalition | a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose. |
| elicity | to draw forth, bring out from some source |
| hiatus | a gap, opening, break |
| assauge | to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench, |
| decadence | decline, decay, or detioration |
| expostulate | to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning. |
| Simulate | to make a pretense of, imitate |
| jaded | wearied, worn out, dulled |
| umbrage | foliage giving shade, shade cast by trees; an overshadowing influence or power; offense, resentment, a vague suspicion |
| prerogative | a special right or privalege |
| lurid | causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in color, terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint |
| transcend | to rise above or beyond, exceed |
| provincial | pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook, countrified in the sense of being limited and backward. A person w/ a narrow point of view; a person from an outlying |
| petulant | peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset |
| unctuous | fatty, oily, and pliable; excessively smooth or smug |
| meritorious | worth, deserving recognition and praise. |
| ex officio | by virtue of holding a certain office |
| infringe | to violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds |
| callow | w/o feathers, w/o experience; immature, not fully developed |
| ameliorate | to improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming |
| bombastic | pompous or overblown in language; full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas |
| ingratiate | to moake oneself agreeable and thus gain favorable acceptance by others |
| epitome | a summary, condensed account; an instance that represents a larger reality |
| aplomb | poise, assurance, great self - confidence; perpendicularity |
| exhort | to urge strongly, advise earnestly |
| drivel | salive or mucus flowing from the mouth or nose. To let saliva flow from mouth; to utter nonsense or childish twaddle; to waste. |
| inveigh | to make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval |
| surmise | to think or believe w/o certain supporting evidence an idea or thought that seems likes but lacks definite proof |
| intrinsic | belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent; originating in a bodily organ or part |
| occult | mysterious, magical, supernatural; secret, hidden from view. To hide conceal; eclipse matters involving the supernatural |
| precipitate | to fall as moisture, to cause or bring about suddenly; to hurl down from a great height. Characterized by excessive haste. Moisture the product of an action or process |
| lassitude | weariness of body or mind, lack of energy |
| millenium | a period of 1 thousand years, a periodic of great joy, prosperity, or peace |
| permeat | to spread through, penetrate, soak through |
| stringent | strict, severe, rigorously or urgently binding or compelling; sharp or bitter to the taste |
| interloper | an intruder, one who moves in where he or she is not wanted or has no right to be. |
| expiate | to make amends, atone, make up for, to ward off or avert |
| expediate | to make easy, cause to progress fasten |
| abominate | to have an intense dislike or hatred for |
| ascribe | to assign or refer to, attribute |
| adventitious | resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause or character; accidental, not essential |
| enjoin | to direct or order to prescribe a course of action in an uathoritating way, to prohibit |
| commiserate | to sympathize w/, have pity or sorrow for, share a feeling of distress |
| occulturation | the modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact w/ those of another; the resultant blend |
| circuitous | roundabout, not direct |
| ferment | a state of great excitement, agitation, or turbulence; to be in or work into such a state; to produce alcohol by chem. action |
| vitriotic | bitter, sarcastic; highly caustic or biting |
| wheedle | to use coaxing or flattery to gain some desired end |
| peculate | to steal something that has been given into one's trust, to take improperly for one's own use. |
| proclivity | a nat. or habitual inclination or tendency |
| nominal | existing in name only, not real; too small to be considered or taken seriously |
| seditous | resistant to lawful authority; having the purpose of overthrowing an est. gov't. |
| tenuous | thin, slender, not dense; lacking clarity or sharpness; of slight importance or sign., lacking a sound basis poorly supported |
| noncommital | not decisive or definite; unwilling to take a clear position or to say yes or no |
| sangfroid | composure or coolness, especially in trying circumstances |
| inadvertant | resulting from or marked by lack of attention unintentional, accidental |
