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approbation
- n. the expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval
- syn: commmendation, sanction
- ant: disapproval, condemnation, censure
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assuage
- v. to make easier or milder, relieve, to quietm calm, to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench
- syn: mitigate, alleviate, slake, allay
- ant: intensify, aggravate, exacerbate
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coalition
- n. a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose
- syn: alliance, league, federation, combine
- ant: splnter group
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decadence
- n. decline, decay, or deterioration, a condition or period of decline or decay, excessive self-indulgence
- syn: degeneration, corruption
- ant: rise, growth, development, maturation
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elicit
- v. to draw forth, bring out from some source (such as another person)
- syn: call forth, evoke, extract, educe
- ant: repress, quash, squelch, stifle
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expostulate
- v. to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or desicion by earnest reasoning
- syn: protest, remonstrate, complain
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hackneyed
- adj. used so often as to lack freshness or originality
- syn: banal, trite, commonplace, corny
- ant: new, fresh, novel, original
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hiatus
- n. a gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing)
- syn: pause, lacuna
- ant:
continuity, continuation
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innuendo
- n. a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)
- syn: insinuation, intimation
- ant: direct statement
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intercede
- v. to plead on behalf of someone else, to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement
- syn: intervene, mediate
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jaded
- adj. wearied, worn-out, dulled (in the sence of being satiated by excessive indulgence)
- syn: sated, surfeited, cloyed
- ant: unspoiled, uncloyed
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lurid
- adj. causing shock, horror, or revulsion, sensational, pale or salllow in color, tremble or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint
- syn: gruesome, gory, grisly, baleful, ghastly
- ant: pleasant, attractive, appealing, wholesome
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meritorious
- adj. worthy, deserving recognition and prasie
- syn: praiseworthy, laudable, commendable
- ant: blameworthy, reprehensible, discreditable
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petulant
- adj. peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irriated and upset
- syn: irritable, testy, waspish
- ant: even-tempered, placid, serene, amiable
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prerogative
- n. a special right or privilege, a special quality showing excellence
- syn: perquisite, perk
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provincial
- adj. pertaining to an outlying area, local, narrow in mind or 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 outlying area, a soldier from a province or colony
- syn: narrow-minded, parochial, insular, naive
- ant: cosmopolitan, catholic, broad-minded
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simulate
- v. to make a pretense of, imitate, to show the outer signs of
- syn: feign, pretend , affect
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transcend
- v. to rise above or beyond, exceed
- syn: surpass, outstrip
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umbrage
- n. shade cast by trees, foliage giving shade, an overshadowing influence or power, offense, resentment, a vague suspicion
- syn: irritation, pique, annoyance
- ant: pleasure, delight, satisfaction
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unctuous
- adj. excessivly smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sicnerity, or piety; fatty, oily; pliable
- syn: mealymouthed, servile, fawning, greasy
- ant: gurff, blunt
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