12th Grade Vocabulary Unit 16

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

• approbation

• decadence

• hackneyed

• intercede

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

• assuage

• elicit

• hiatus

• innuendo

a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose

• coalition

• expostulate

• approbation

• innuendo

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

• decadence

• expostulate

• hiatus

• intercede

to draw forth, bring out form some sources (such as another person)

• elicit

• assuage

• hackneyed

• coalition

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

• expostulate

• intercede

• assuage

• decadence

used so often as to lack freshness or originality

• hackneyed

• innuendo

• coalition

• elicit

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

• hiatus

• approbation

• decadence

• expostulate

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

• innuendo

• hackneyed

• assuage

• coalition

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

• interced

• hiatus

• elicit

• approbation