Thursday, September 4, 2014

                                                                    Fall vocab list 2


  •  Intercede - intervene on behalf of another.
  • Hackneyed - (a phrase or idea) lacking signifigance through having been over used.
  • Approbation - approval or praise
  • Innuendo - an allusion or oblique remark or hint
  • Coalition - an alliance for combined action
  • Elicit - evoke or draw (a response,  answer,  or fact) from someone in reaction to ones own actions or questions
  • hiatus - a pause or gap in a sequence, series or process
  • Assuage- make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense.
  • Decadence - moral or cultral decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury.
  • Expostulate - express strong dissaproval or dissagreement
  • Simulate - imitate the chatacter of
  • Jaded - tired bored or lacking enthusiasm typically after having had too much of something
  • Umbrage -offense or annoyance.
  • Prerogatovea right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class.
  • Lurid -very vivid in color, especially so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect.
  • Transcend - be or go beyond the range of limits of (something abstract, typically a conceptual field or division)
  • Provincial - of or concerning a province of q county or empire. 
  • Petulant - (of a person or their manner) childishly Sulky ir bad-tempered
  • Uncutousof a person) excessively or ingratiatingly flattering; oily.
  • meritorious detecting

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