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Vocab Level F
Unit 1
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English
11th Grade
01/10/2006

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approbation
Definition
commendation, sanction
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assuage
Definition
mitigate, make easier
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coalition
Definition
combination, union, alliance
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decadance
Definition
decline, decay, degeneration, corruption
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elicit
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to draw forth, call forth, evoke, educe
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expostulate
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to attempt to dissuade someone from something, protest, remonstrate, complain
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hackneyed
Definition
used so often as to lack freshness or originality, banal, trite
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hiatus
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a gap, opening, break, lacuna
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innuendo
Definition
hint, indirect suggestion, insinuation, intimation
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intercede
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to plead on behalf of someone else, intervene, mediate
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jaded
Definition
wearied, worn-out, dulled, sated, surfeited, cloyed
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lurid
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causing shock, horror, or revulsion; grusome, gory, grisly, baleful, ghastly
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meritorious
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worthy, deserving recognition/praise, laudable, praiseworthy, commendable
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petulant
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peevish, annoyed by trifles, irritable, testy, waspish
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prerogative
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perquisite, perk
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provincial
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pertaining to an outlying area, local, narrow in mind/outlook, simple, sense of being limited/backward, person with narrow point of view, insular, naive, parrocial
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simulate
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to make a pretense of, imitate, feign, affect
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transcend
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to rise above or beyond, exceed, surpass, outstrip
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umbrage
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shade cast by trees, an overshadowing influence or power, offense, resentment, irritation, pique, annoyance
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unctuous
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exceedingly smooth/snug; trying to hard to give an impression of earnestness; sincerity/piety; fatty/pily; mealymouthed, servile, fawning, greasy
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