Zak's Vocab 1
definition:synonyms
Terms
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- ceed, cede, cess
- to go
- ion
- (N) act/ process of
- unctuous
- (ADJ) excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety; fatty, oily; pliable: mealymouthed, servile, fawning, greasy
- decadence
- (N) decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self indulgence: degeneration, corruption
- trans
- across
- intercede
- (V) to plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go between in a disagreement: intervene, mediate
- inter
- between
- lurid
- (ADJ) causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in color; terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint: gruesome, gory, grisly, baleful, ghastly
- ate
- (V) to cause or become
- e-, ex
- out
- simulate
- (V) to make a pretense of, imitate; to show the outer signs of: feign, pretend, affect
- jaded
- (ADJ) wearied, worn out, dulled, (satiated by excessive indulgence): sated, surfeited, cloyed
- expostulate
- (V) to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning: protest, remonstrate, complain
- hackneyed
- (ADJ) used so often as to lack freshness or originality: banal, trite, commonplace, corny
- hiatus
- (N) a gap, opening, break: pause, lacuna
- assuage
- (V) to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench: mitigate, alleviate, slake
- elicit
- (V) to draw forth, bring out from some source: call forth, evoke, extract, educe
- provincial
- (ADJ) pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook, countrified in the sense of being limited and backward (N) a person with a narrow point of view; a person from an outlying area; a soldier from a province or colony: ADJ- narrow-minded, parochial, insular, naive
- coalition
- (N) combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose: alliance, league, federation...
- approbation
- (N) the expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise, official approval: commendation, sanction
- scend
- to climb
- transcend
- (V) to rise above or beyond, exceed; surpass, outstrip
- prerogative
- (N) a special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence: perquisite, perk
- umbrage
- (N) shade cast by trees; foliage giving shade; an overshadowing influence or power; offense, resentment; a vague suspicion: irritation pigue, annoyance
- innuendo
- (N) hint, indirect suggestion, reference: insinuation, intimation
- meritorious
- (ADJ) worthy, deserving recognition and praise: praiseworthy, laudable, commendable
- petulant
- (ADJ) peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and uspet: irritable, testy, waspish