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20 Cards in this Set
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(n.) The expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval.
Syn: commendation, sanction Ant: dissaproval, condemation, censure |
Approbation
Stress: ba |
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(v.) to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench
Syn: mitigate, alleviate, slake, allay Ant: intensify, aggravate, exacerbate. |
Assuage
Stress: suage |
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(n.) A combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose.
Syn: alliance, leauge, federation, combine Ant: splinter group |
Coalition
Stress: li |
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(n.) decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessice self-indulgence
Syn: degeneration, corruption Ant: rise, growth, development, maturation |
Decadence
Stress: de |
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(v.) to draw forth, bring out from some source (such as another person)
Syn: call forth, evoke, extract, educe Ant: repress, quash, squelch, stifle |
Elicit
Stress: lic |
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(v.) to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning
Syn: protest, remonstrate, complain |
Expostulate
Stress: pos |
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(adj.) used so often as to lack freshness or origionality
Syn: banal, trite, commonplace, corny Ant: new, fresh, novel, origional |
Hackneyed
Stress: hack |
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(n.) a gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element meaning)
Syn: pause, lacuna Ant: continutiy, continuation |
Hiatus
Stress: a |
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(n.) a hint, indirect suggestion or reference (ofter in a derogatory sense)
Syn: insinuation, intimation Ant: direct statement |
Innuendo
Stress: en |
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(v.) to plead on behald of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement
Syn: intervene, mediate |
Intercede
Stress: cede |
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(adj.) wearied, worn-out, dulled (in the sense of being satiated by excessive indulgence)
Syn: sated, surfeited, cloyed Ant: unspoiled, uncloyed |
Jaded
Stress: ja |
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(adj.) causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in color; terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restrait
Syn: greusome, gory, grisly, baleful, ghastly Ant: pleasant, attractive, appealing, wholesome |
Lurid
Stress: lur |
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(adj.) worthy, deserving recognition and praise
Syn: praiseworthy, laudable, commendable Ant: blameworthy, reprehensible, discreditable |
Meritorious
Stress: tor |
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(adj.) peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset
Syn: irritable, test, waspish Ant: even-tempered, placid, serence, amiable |
Petulant
Stress: pet |
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(n.) a special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence
Syn: perquisite, perk |
Prerogative
Sress: ro |
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(adj.) pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or 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 from a province or colony
Syn: naroow-minded, parochial, unsular, naive Ant: cosmopolitan, catholic, broad-minded |
Provincial
Stress: vin |
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(v.) to make a pretense of, imitate; t oshow the outer signs of
Syn: feign, pretend, affect |
Simulate
Stress: sim |
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(v.) to rise about or beyond, exceed
Syn: surpass, outstrip |
Transcend
Stress: scend |
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(n.) shade cast by trees; foilage giving shade; an overshadowing influence or power; offense, resentment; a vague suspicion
Syn: irritation, pique, annoyance Ant: pleasure, delight, satisfaction |
Umbrage
Stress: um |
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(adj.) excessively smooth or smug; trying to hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety; fattym oily, pliable
Syn: mealymouthed, servile, fawning, greasy Ant: gruff, blunt |
Unctuous
Stress: unct |
