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Approbation
(n) official praise or approval
Assuage
(v) to make an unpleasant feeling less painful or severe
Coalition
(n) a union of two or more political parties that allows them to form a government or fight an election together
Decadence
(n) behaviour that shows that someone has low moral standards and is more concerned with pleasure than serious matters
Elicit
(v) to succeed in getting information or a reaction from someone
Expostulate
(v) to express strong disapproval
Hackneyed
(adj) a hackneyed phrase is boring and does not have much meaning because it has been used so often
Hiatus
(n) a break or interruption in an activity
Innuendo
(n) a remark that suggests something sexual or unpleasant without saying it directly
Intercede
(v) to speak in support of someone
Jaded
(adj) someone who is jaded is no longer interested in or excited by something
Lurid
(adj) a description
Meritorious
(adj) very good and deserving praise
Petulant
(adj) behaving in an unreasonably impatient and angry way
Prerogative
(n) a right that someone has
Provincial
(adj) old-fashioned and not interested in anything new or different - used to show disapproval (n) someone who comes from a part of a country that is not near the capital
Simulate
(v) to make or produce something that is not real but has the appearance or feeling of being real
Transcend
(v) to go beyond the usual limits of something
Umbrage
(n) to be offended by something that someone has done or said
Unctuous
(adj) too friendly and praising people too much in a way that seems very insincere
Ameliorate
(v) to make a bad situation better or less harmful
Aplomb
(n) in a confident and skilful way
Bombastic
containing long words that sound important but have no real meaning
Callow
(adj) young and without experience - used to show disapproval
Drivel
(n) something that is said or written that is silly or does not mean anything (v) say or write something that is silly or does not mean anything
Epitome
(n) the best possible example of something
Exhort
(v) to try very hard to persuade someone to do something
Ex officio
(adj, adv) a member of an organization is only a member because of their rank or position
Infringe
(v) to do something that is against a law or someone's legal rights
Ingratiate
(v) to try very hard to get someone's approval - used to show disapproval
Interloper
(n) someone who enters a place or group where they should not be
Intrinsic
(adj) being part of the nature or character of someone or something
Inveigh
(v) to criticize someone or something strongly
Lassitude
(n) tiredness and lack of energy or interest
Millennnium
(n) a period of 1000 years
Occult
(adj) magical and mysterious (n) mysterious practices and powers involving magic and spirits
Permeate
(v) present in every part of it
Precipitate
(v) make something serious happen suddenly or more quickly than was expected (adj) happening or done too quickly
Stringent
(adj) law
Surmise
(v) to guess that something is true
Abominate
(v) to hate something very much
Acculturation
(n) changing the beliefs
Adventitious
(adj) happening by chance
Ascribe
(v) to claim that something is caused by a particular person
Circuitous
(adj) going from one place to another in a way that is longer than the most direct way
Commiserate
(v) to express your sympathy for someone who is unhappy about something
Enjoin
(v) to order or try to persuade someone to do something
Expedite
(v) to make a process or action happen more quickly
Expiate
(v) to show you are sorry for something you have done wrong by accepting your punishment willingly
Ferment
(n) a situation of great excitement or trouble in a country
Inadvertent
(adj) without realizing what you are doing
Nominal
(adj) officially described as being something
Noncommittal
(adj) deliberately not expressing your opinion or intentions clearly
Peculate
(v) to steal from the place where you work; borrow temporarily for yourself
Proclivity
(n) a tendency to behave in a particular way
Sangfroid
(n) calm
Seditious
(adj) speech
Tenuous
(adj) a situation or relationship that is uncertain
Vitriolic
(adj) language
Wheedle
(v) to persuade someone to do or give you something
Affable
(adj) friendly and easy to talk to
Aggrandize
(v) to increase the effects or strength of something
Amorphous
(adj) having no definite shape or features
Aura
(n) a quality or feeling that seems to surround or come from a person or a place
Contraband
(n) goods that are brought into a country illegally
Erudite
(adj) showing a lot of knowledge based on careful study
Gossamer
(adj) light or delicate (n) a very light thin material
Infer
(v) to form an opinion that something is probably true because of information that you have
Inscrutable
(adj) someone who shows no emotion or reaction in the expression on their face so that it is impossible to know what they are feeling or thinking
Insular
(adj) interested in your own group
Irrevocable
(adj) a decision
Propensity
(n) a natural tendency to behave in a particular way
Querulous
(adj) someone who complains about things in an annoying way
Remonstrate
(v) to tell someone that you strongly disapprove of something they have said or done
Repudiate
(v) to refuse to accept or continue with something
Resilient
(adj) able to become strong
Reverberate
(v) heard many times as it is sent back from different surfaces
Scurrilous
(adj) remarks
Sedulous
(adj) working very hard in a determined way without stopping
Sleazy
(adj) dirty
Amnesty
(n) an official order by a government that allows a particular group of prisoners to go free; a period of time when you can admit to doing something illegal without being punished
Autonomy
(n) freedom that a place or an organization has to govern or control itself
Axiomatic
(adj) something that does not need to be proved because you can easily see that it is true
Blazon
(v) to be written or shown on something in a very noticeable way
Caveat
(n) a warning that something may not be completely true
Equitable
(adj) treating all people in a fair and equal way
Extricate
(v) to escape from a difficult or embarrassing situation
Filch
(v) to steal something small or not very valuable
Flout
(v) to deliberately disobey a law
Fractious
(adj) someone who is fractious becomes angry very easily
Precept
(n) rule on which a way of thinking or behaving is based
Salutary
(adj) helpful
Scathing
(adj) a remark criticizing someone or something very severely
Scourge
(v) to cause a lot of harm or suffering to a place or group of people (n) something that causes a lot of harm or suffering
Sepulchral
(adj) sad
Soporific
(adj) making you feel ready to sleep (n) something that makes you feel ready to sleep
Straightlaced
(adj) having strict
Transient
(adj) continuing only for a short time (n) someone who has no home and moves around from place to place
Unwieldly
(adj) an object that is big
Vapid
(adj) lacking intelligence
Anomolous
(adj) different from what you expected to find
Aspersion
(n) an unkind remark or an unfair judgment
Bizarre
(adj) very unusual or strange
Brusque
(adj) using very few words in a way that seems rude
Cajole
(v) to gradually persuade someone to do something by being nice to them
Castigate
(v) to criticize or punish someone severely
Contrive
(v) to arrange an event or situation in a clever way
Demagogue
(n) a political leader who tries to make people feel strong emotions in order to influence their opinions - used to show disapproval
Disabuse
(v) to persuade someone that what they believe is not true
Ennui
(n) a feeling of being tired
Fetter
(n) things that prevent someone from being free (v) to restrict someone's freedom and prevent them from doing what they want
Heinous
(adj) very shocking and immoral
Immutable
(adj) never changing or impossible to change
Insurgent
(n) one of a group of people fighting against the government of their own country
Megalomania
(n) when someone wants to have a lot of power for themselves and enjoys having control over other people's lives
Sinecure
(n) a job which you get paid for even though you do not have to do very much work
Surreptitious
(adj) done secretly or quickly because you do not want other people to notice
Transgress
(v) to do something that is against the rules of social behaviour or against a moral principle
Transmute
(v) to change one substance or type of thing into another
Vicarious
(adj) experienced by watching or reading about someone else doing something