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Approbation

(noun)


The expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval




Synonyms: commendation, sanction


Antonyms; disapproval, condemnation, censure

Assuage

(Verb)


To make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench


Synonyms: mitigate, alleviate, slake, allay


Antonyms: intensify, aggravate, exacerbate

Coalition

(noun)


Combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose


Synonyms: alliance, league, federation, combine


Antonym: splinter group

Decadence

(noun)


decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self-indulgence


Synonyms: degeneration, corruption


Antonyms: rise, growth, development, maturation

Elicit

(verb)


To draw forth, bring out from some source (such as another person)


synonyms: call forth, evoke, extract, educe


Antonyms: repress, quash, squelch, stifle

Expostulate

(verb)


To attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning


Synonyms: protest, remonstrate, complain

Hackneyed

(adjective)


used so often as to lack freshness or originality


Synonyms: banal, trite, commonplace, corny


Antonyms: new, fresh, novel, original

Hiatus

(noun)


A gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing)


synonyms: pause, lacuna


Antonyms: continuity, continuation

Innuendo

(noun)


a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)


synonyms: insinuation, intimation


Antonym: direct statement

Intercede

(verb)


to plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement


synonyms: intervene, mediate