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| the expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval Synonyms: commendation, sanction |
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to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease satisfy, quench
Synonyms: mitigate, alleviate, slake, allay |
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a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose
Synonyms: alliance, league, federation, combine |
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decline, decay or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self-indulgence
Synonym: degeneration, corruption |
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to draw forth, bring out from some source (such as another person)
Synonyms: call forth, evoke, extract, educe |
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to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning
Synonyms: protest, remonstrate, complain |
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used so often as to lack freshness or originality
Synonyms: banal, trite, commonplace, corny |
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a gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing)
Synonyms: pause, lacuna |
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a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)
Synonyms: insinuation, intimation |
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to plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go between in a disagreement
Synonyms: intervene, mediate |
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wearied, worn-out, dulled (in the sense of being satiated by excessive and indulgence)
Synonyms: sated, surfeited, cloyed |
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causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in color; terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint
Synonyms: gruesome, gory, grisly, baleful, ghastly |
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worthy, deserving recognition and praise
Synonyms: praiseworthy, laudable, commendable |
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peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset
Synonyms: irritable, testy, waspish |
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a special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence
Synonyms: perquisite, perk |
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pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook, countrified in the sense of being limited and backward; or a simple, plain design that originated in the countryside; a person with a narrow point of view; a person from an outlying area; a soldier from a province or colony
Synonyms: narrow-minded, parochial, insular, naïve |
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to make a pretense of, imitate; to show the outer signs of
Synonyms: feign, pretend, affect |
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to rise above or beyond, exceed
Synonyms: surpass, outstrip |
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shade case by trees; foliage giving shade; an overshadowing influence or power; offense, resentment; a vague suspicion
Synonyms: irritation, pique, annoyance |
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excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety; fatty, oily; pliable
Synonyms: mealymouthed, servile, fawning, greasy |
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