Sadlier Vocabulary Workshop Level F

(n.) The expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval

• approbation
• assuage 
• meritorious 
• prerogative 

(n.) A combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose

• approbation 
• innuendo 
• coalition 
• umbrage 

(v.) To draw forth, bring out from some source

• intercede 
• elicit 
• transcend
• expostulate 

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

• hiatus 
• coalition 
• decadence 
• umbrage 

(v.) To make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench

• expostulate 
• intercede 
• simulate 
• assuage 

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

• hiatus 
• innuendo
• prerogative 
• coalition 

(v.) To make a pretense of, imitate; to show the outer signs of

• assuage 
• intercede 
• simulate 
• transcend 

(n.) Shade cast by trees; foliage giving shade; an overshadowing influence or power; offense, resentment; a vague suspicion

• prerogative 
• umbrage 
• innuendo
• hiatus 

(adj.) Used so often as to lack freshness or originality

• provincial
• unctuous 
• hackneyed 
• elicit 

(v.) To plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement

• simulate 
• assuage 
• elicit 
• intercede