Academic Vocab 41-60 (Sets 1-5)

To seek by respectful request; also to seek to influence an unlawful action; ask; approach; beg

• hackneyed

• coalesce

• preclude

• solicit

Conventional; adhering to established principles or doctrines, especially in religion; by the book; proper

• prudence

• contrite

• orthodox

• credulous

To prevent the presence or existence of something; to make impossible; avert; prohibit

• pivotal

• preclude

• nullify

• pretentious

To erase; to rub away the features of; destroy

• efface

• atrophy

• incongruous

• assauge

Untalkative by nature; aloof; laconic

• lax

• stoic

• ascetic

• taciturn

To make better or more tolerable; alleviate; lighten

• acquiesce

• ameliorate

• levity

• innate

to comply without protest; to give in; agree; capitulate

• acquiesce

• sycophant

• deference

• engender

To waste away from lack of use; degeneration

• nullify

• efface

• atrophy

• nostalgia

Having the property of not being changeable; permanent

• dogmatic

• esoteric

• solemn

• immutable

Willing to believe or trust too readily; gullible

• tangible

• credulous

• scrupulous

• hedonistic