Sadlier Vocab Level F Unit 1

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

• innuendo

• hiatus

• lurid

• assuage

Causing shock, horror, or revulsion/pale or sallow in color

• decadence

• hackneyed

• lurid

• elicit

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

• assuage

• hiatus

• provincial

• approbation

worthy, deserving recognition and praise

• meritorious

• intercede

• jaded

• elicit

used so often as to lack freshness or originality

• hackneyed

• innuendo

• expostulate

• coalition

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

• jaded

• intercede

• decadence

• prerogative

to make pretense of, imitate; to show the outer signs of

• simulate

• transcend

• petulant

• umbrage

to rise above or beyond, exceed

• unctuous

• umbrage

• transcend

• provincial

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

• approbation

• innuendo

• hiatus

• transcend

a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose

• coalition

• decadence

• intercede

• hackneyed