College Bound Unit 1 Vocab

Praise or Approval

• Umbrage

• Innuendo

• Hiatus

• Approbation

To make something nicer or not as harsh

• Elicit

• Assuage

• Expostulate

• Intercede

To make a combination, generally of people

• Coalition

• Decadence

• Imitate

• Umbrage

A period of time that something is deteriorating

• Decadence

• Appropbation

• Umbrage

• Prerogative

To pull out information without resorting to violence

• Elicit

• Expostulate

• Intercede

• Simulate

To try and change someone's mind against doing something you disagree with

• Expostulate

• Transcend

• Assuage

• Simulate

Very overused

• Hackneyed

• Lurid

• Meritorious

• Petulant

A break

• Hiatus

• Innuendo

• Prerogative

• Provincial

A joke or comment that suggests something else, typically something inappropriate

• Innuendo

• Umbrage

• Decadence

• Approbation

To speak for someone else, in hopes of solving a problem

• Intercede

• Simulate

• Tanscend

• Expostulate