Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary Workshop Level F Unit 1

Approbation

(n) the expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval.
Synonyms: commendation, sanction
Antonyms: disapproval, codemnation, censure

Assuage

(v) to make easier or milder, relive; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satify, 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
Antonyms: Splinter group

Decadance

(n) decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay: excessive self-indulgence
Synonyms: Degeneration, corruption
Antonyms: rise, growth, developement, 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 sop 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 hving an element missing)
Synonyms: pause, lacuna
Antonyms: continuity, continuation

Innuendo

(n) a hint, inderect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)
Synonyms: insinuation, intimation
Antonyms: direct statement

Intercede

(v) to plead on behalf or someone else; to serve as a third party or a go-between in a disagreement
Synonyms: intervene, mediate

Jaded

(adj) wearied, worn-out, dulled (in the sense of being satiated by excessive indulgance)
Synonyms: sated, surfeuted, cloyed
Antonyms: unspoiled, uncloyed

Lurid

(adj) sausing shock, horror or revultion; sensational; pale or sallow in color, terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint
Synonyms:gruesome, gory, grisly, baleful, ghastly
Antonyms: pleasent, 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 irritatied and upset
Synonyms: irritable, testy, waspish
Antonyms: even-tempered, placid, serene, amiable

Prerogative

(n) a special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence
Synonyms: perquisite, perk

Provinical

(adj) pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or in 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 outl

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; foliage giving shade; and overshadowing influence or power; offense, resentment; a vague suspicion
Synonyms: irritation, pique, annoyance
Antonyms: pleasure, delight satisfaction

Unctuous

(adj) excessively 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