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Approbation |
(n) official praise or approval |
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Assuage |
(v) to make an unpleasant feeling less painful or severe |
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Coalition |
(n) a union of two or more political parties that allows them to form a government or fight an election together |
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Decadence |
(n) behaviour that shows that someone has low moral standards and is more concerned with pleasure than serious matters |
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Elicit |
(v) to succeed in getting information or a reaction from someone, especially when this is difficult |
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Expostulate |
(v) to express strong disapproval, disagreement, or annoyance with someone |
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Hackneyed |
(adj) a hackneyed phrase is boring and does not have much meaning because it has been used so often |
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Hiatus |
(n) a break or interruption in an activity |
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Innuendo |
(n) a remark that suggests something sexual or unpleasant without saying it directly, or these remarks in general |
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Intercede |
(v) to speak in support of someone, especially in order to try to prevent them from being punished |
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Jaded |
(adj) someone who is jaded is no longer interested in or excited by something, usually because they have experienced too much of it |
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Lurid |
(adj) a description, story etc that is lurid is deliberately shocking |
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Meritorious |
(adj) very good and deserving praise |
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Petulant |
(adj) behaving in an unreasonably impatient and angry way, like a child |
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Prerogative |
(n) a right that someone has, especially because of their importance or social position |
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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, especially someone who is not interested in anything new or different - often used to show disapproval |
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Simulate |
(v) to make or produce something that is not real but has the appearance or feeling of being real |
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Transcend |
(v) to go beyond the usual limits of something |
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Umbrage |
(n) to be offended by something that someone has done or said, often without good reason |
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Unctuous |
(adj) too friendly and praising people too much in a way that seems very insincere |
