Vocabulary Workshop Pages 14-16

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Approbation

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The expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval

Synonym: Sanction

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Assuage

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To make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench

Synonyms: Mitigate, slake, allay

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Coalition

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A combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose.

Synonym: alliance, league, federation, combine

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Decadence

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Decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self-indulgence.

Synonyms: degeneration, corruption

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Elicit

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To draw forth, bring out from some source (such as another person).

Synonyms: evoke, extract, educe

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Expostulate

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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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Hackneyed

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Used so often as to lack freshness or originality.

Synonyms: banal, trite, commonplace, corny

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Hiatus

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A gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing).

Synonyms: pause, lacuna

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Innuendo

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A hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often used in a derogatory sense)

Synonyms: insinuation, intimation

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Intercede

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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