12th Grade Honors Unit 1 Vocabulary

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

• approbation

• elicit

• hiatus

• meritorious

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

• assuage

• innuendo

• petulant

• umbrage

a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose

• coalition

• expostulate

• jaded

• provincial

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

• decadence

• hiatus

• meritorious

• transcend

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

• elicit

• hackneyed

• lurid

• simulate

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

• expostulate

• intercede

• prerogative

• unctuous

used so often as to lack freshness or originality

• hackneyed

• approbation

• umbrage

• jaded

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

• hiatus

• coalition

• provincial

• intercede

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

• innuendo

• assuage

• simulate

• elicit

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

• intercede

• decadence

• approbation

• prerogative