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Sadlier-Oxford Vocab Workshop Level F Units 1-3

Terms in this set (60)

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

S: Commendation, Sanction
A: disapproval, condemnation, censure
Assuage
(v.) To make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench.

S: Mitigate, alleviate, slake, allay
A: Intensify, aggravate, exacerbate
Coalition
(n.) A combination, union or merger for some specific purpose.

S: Alliance, league, federation, combine
A:Splinter group
Decadence
(n.) Decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self-indulgence.

S: Degeneration, corruption
A: Rise, growth, development, maturation
Elicit
(v.) To draw forth, bring out from some source (such as another person).

S: Call forth, evoke, extract, educe
A: Repress, quash, squelch, stifle
Expostulate
(v.) To attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning.

S: Protest, remonstrate, complain
Hackneyed
(adj.) Used so often as to lack freshness or originality.

S: Banal, trite, commonplace, corny
A: New, fresh, novel, original
Hiatus
(n.) A gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing).

S: Pause, lacuna
A: Continuity, continuation
Innuendo
(n.) A hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense).

S: Insinuation, intimation
A: Direct Statement
Intercede
(v.) To plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement.

S: Intervene, mediate
Jaded
(adj.) Wearied, worn-out, dulled (in the sense of being satiated by excessive indulgence).

S: Sated, surfeited, cloyed.
A: Unspoiled, uncloyed
Lurid
(adj.) Causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in color; terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint.

S: Gruesome, gory, grisly, baleful, ghastly
A: Pleasant, attractive, appealing, wholesome
Meritorious
(adj.) Worthy, deserving recognition and praise.

S: Praiseworthy, laudable, commendable
A: Blameworthy, reprehensible, discreditable
Petulant
(adj.) Peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset.

S: Irritable, testy
A: Even-tempered, placid, serene
Prerogative
(n.) A special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence.

S: perquisite, perk
Provincial
(adj.) Pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or in outlook, countrified in the sense of being limited and backward; of a simple, plain design that originated in the countryside; (n.) A person with a narrow point of view; a person from an outlying area; a soldier froma province or colony

S: (adj.) Narrow-minded, parochial
A: (adj.) Cosmopolitan, catholic
Simulate
(v.) to make a pretense of, imitate; to show the out signs of.

S: Feign, pretend
Transcend
(v.) to rise above or beyond, exceed.

S: Surpass, outstrip
Umbrage
(n.) shade cast by trees; foliage giving shade; an overshadowing influence or power; offence, resentment; a vague suspicion.

S: irritation, annoyance
A: Pleasure, delight
Unctuous
(adj.) excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety, fatty, oily; pliable.

S: mealymouthed, servile
A: gruff, blunt
Ameliorate
(v.) to improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming.

S: Amend, better
A: Worsen
Aplomb
(n.) poise, assurance, great self-confidence; perpendicularity.

S: Composure
A: Embarrassment
Bombastic
(adj.) pompous or overblown in language; full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas

S: High-flown
A: Simple
Callow
(adj.) without experience; immature, not fully developed; lacking sophistication and poise; without feathers.

S: Inexperienced
A: Mature
Drivel
(n.) saliva or mucus flowing from the mouth or nose; foolish talk or thinking; nonsense; (v.) to let saliva flow from mouth; to utter nonsense or childish twaddle; to waste or fritter away foolishly.

S: (n.) Hogwash (v.) slaver
Epitome
(n.) a summary, condensed account; and instance that represents a larger reality.

S: Abstract, model
Exhort
(v.) to urge strongly, advise earnestly.

S: Implore
A: Discourage
Ex officio
(adj., adv.) by virtue of holding a certain office.
Infringe
(v.) to violate, trespass, go beyond recognized bounds.

S: Encroach, impinge
A: Stay in bounds
Ingratiate
(v.) to make oneself agreeable and thus gain favor or acceptance by others (sometimes used in a critical or derogatory sense)

S: Cozy up to
A: Alienate
Interloper
(n.) one who moves in where he of she is not wanted or has no right to be, an intruder.

S: Trespasser
Intrinsic
(adj.) belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent; originating in a bodily organ or part.

S: Organic
A: Extrinsic
Inveigh
(v.) to make a violent attack in words, express strong disapproval.

S: rail
A: acclaim
Lassitude
(n.) weariness of body or mind, lack of energy

S: Fatigue
A: Energy
Millennium
(n.) a period of one thousand years; a period of great joy.

S: Prosperity
A: Day of judgement
Occult
(adj.) mysterious, magical, supernatural; secret, hidden from view; not detectable by ordinary means; (v.) to hide, conceal; eclipse; (n.) matters involving the supernatural.

S: (adj.) Supernatural
A: (adj.) Common
Permeate
(v.) to spread through, penetrate, soak through.
Precipitate
(v.) to fall as moisture; to cause or bring about suddenly; to hurl down from a great height; to give distinct form to; (adj.) characterized be excessive haste; (n.) moisture; the product of an action or process.

S: (v.) Provoke (adj.) Reckless
A: (adj.) Wary
Stringent
(adj.) strict, severe; rigorously or urgently binding or compelling; sharp or bitter to the taste.

S: Stern
A: Lenient
Surmise
(v.) to think or believe withour certain supporting evidence; to conjecture or guess; (n.) likely idea that lacks definite proof.

S: (v.) infer (n.) inference
Abominate
(v.) To have an intense dislike or hatred for.

S: Loathe
A: Relish
Acculturation
(n.) The modification of the social patterns, traits, or structures of one group or society by contact with those of another; the resultant blend.

S: Adaptation
Adventitious
(adj.) Resulting from chance rather than from an inherent cause or character; accidental, not essential; (medicine) acquired, not congenital.

S: Incidental
A: Essential
Ascribe
(v.) To assign or refer to (as a cause or source), attribute.

S: Impute
Circuitous
(adj.) Roundabout, not direct.

S: Indirect
A: Straight
Commiserate
(v.) To sympathize with, have pity or sorrow for, share a feeling of distress.

S: Empathize
A: Feel no sympathy for
Enjoin
(v.) To direct or order; to prescribe a course of action in an authoritative way; to prohibit; to urge someone.

S: Command
A: Allow
Expedite
(v.) To make easy, cause to progress faster, speed up.

S: Accelerate
A: Obstruct
Expiate
(v.) to make amends, make up for; to avert.

S: Redeem
Ferment
(n.) A state of great excitement, agitation, or turbulence; (v.) to be in or work into such a state; to produce alcohol by chemical action

S: (n.) Commotion, turmoil
A: (n.) Peace and quiet
Inadvertent
(adj.) Resulting from or marked by lack of attention; unintentional, accidental.

S: Accidental
A: Deliberate
Nominal
(adj.) Existing in name only, not real; too small to be considered or taken seriously.

S: Trifling
A: Real
Noncommittal
(adj.) Not decisive or definite; unwilling to take a clear position or to say yes or no.

S: Uninformative
A: Positive
Peculate
(v.) to steal something that has been given into one's trust; to take improperly for one's own use.

S: embezzle
Proclivity
(n.) A natural or habitual inclination or tendency (especially of human character or behavior).

S: propensity
A: Inability or incapacity
Sangfroid
(n.) Composure or coolness, especially in trying circumstances.

S: Poise
A: Hysteria
Seditious
(adj.) Resistant to lawful authority; having the purpose of overthrowing an established government.

S: Rebel
A: Supportive
Tenuous
(adj.) Thin, slender, not dense; lacking clarity or sharpness; of slight importance or significance; lacking a sound basis, poorly supported.

S: Flimsy
A: Strong
Vitriolic
(adj.) Bitter, sarcastic; highly caustic or biting (like a strong acid).

S: Withering
A: Bland
Wheedle
(v.) To use coaxing or flattery to gain some desired end

S: Cajole
A: Coerce
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