Vocab Quiz

a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.

• hiatus

• coalition

• decadence

• intercede

approval; commendation.

• approbation

• hiatus

• elicit

• expostulate

to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate

• assuage

• decadence

• elicit

• innuendo

a combination or alliance, especially a temporary one between persons, factions, states, etc.

• decadence

• coalition

• elicit

• hackneyed

the act or process of falling into an inferior condition or state; deterioration; decay

• decadence

• elicit

• intercede

• innuendo

to draw or bring out or forth; educe; evoke

• elicit

• innuendo

• hackneyed

• intercede

to reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done; remonstrate

• expostulate

• elicit

• intercede

• assuage

made commonplace or trite; stale; banal

• elicit

• hackneyed

• innuendo

• intercede

an indirect intimation about a person or thing, especially of a disparaging or a derogatory nature.

• innuendo

• intercede

• intercede

• decadence

to act or interpose in behalf of someone in difficulty or trouble, as by pleading or petition:

• intercede

• assuage

• coalition

• elicit