Vocabulary Unit 1

(NOUN) The expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; offical approval

synonyms: commendation, sanction
antonyms: disapproval, condemnation, censure

(VERB) to make easier or milder, relieve; to wuiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satifsy, quench

Synonyms: mitigate, alleviate, slake, allay
Antonyms: intensify, aggravate, exacerbate

(NOUN) a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose

Synonyms: alliance, league, federation, combine
Antonym: splinter group

(NOUN) decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self indulgence

Synonyms: degerneation, corruption
Antonyms: rise, growth, development, maturation

(VERB) to draw forth, bring out from some source (such as another person)

Synonyms: call forth, evoke, extract, educe
Antonyms: repress, quash, squelch, stifle

(VERB) to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning

Synonyms: protest, remonstrate, complain

(ADJ) used so often as to lack freshness or originality

Synonyms: banal, trite, commonplace, corny
Antonyms: new, fresh, novel, original

(NOUN) a gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing)

Synonyms: pause, lacuna
Antonyms: contnuity, continuation

(NOUN) a hint, in direct suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)

Synonyms: insinuation, intimation
Antonym: direct statment

(VERB) to plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go between in a disagreement

Synonyms: intervene, mediate

(ADJ) wearied, worn-out, dulled (in the sense of being statiated by excessive indulgence)

Synonyms: sated, surfeited, cloyed
Antonyms: unspoiled, uncloyed

(ADJ) 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
Antonyms: pleasant, attractive, appealing, wholesome

(ADJ) worthy, deserving recognition and praise

Synonyms: praiseworthy, laudable, commendable
Antonyms: blameworthy, reprehensible, discreditable

(ADJ) peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset

Synonyms: irritable, testy, waspish
Antonyms: even-tempered, placid, serene, amiable

(NOUN) a special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence

Synonyms: perquisite, perk

(ADJ) pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook, countrified in the sense of being limited and backward; of a smiple, plain design that originated in the countryside; 
(NOUN) 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

(VERB) to make a prestense of, imiated; to show the outer signs of

Synonyms: feign, pretend, affect

(VERB) to rise above or beyond, exceed

Synonyms: surpass, outstrip

(NOUN) shade cast by trees, foliage giving shade; an overshadowing influence or power; offense, resentment; a vague suspicion

Synonyms: irriatin, pique, annoyance
Antonyms: pleasure, delight, satisfaction

(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