Vocabulary 16 Sadlier F

To ___ parent opinions, the principal sent a survey home.

• simulate

• elicit

If you try to ___ in a friends' quarrel, you may only make things worse.

• intercede

• simulate

Aiming to receive a big tip, the ___ waiter was full of compliments.

• unctious

• meritorious

Because they are seniors, they feel it should be their ___ to wear whatever they want.

• expostulate

• prerogative

They try to prove the ___ of modern young people by emphasizing everything that is bad and ignoring whatever is good.

• umbrage

• decadence

Every successful politician knows how to win the ___ of the people.

• coalition

• approbation

Who would have thought that he would have taken ___ at an e-mail from a friend who wanted only to help?

• prerogative

• umbrage

The newspaper account of the tragedy was quite sensational and filled with ___ details about the accident.

• lurid

• provincial

Perhaps it will ___ your fright if I remind you that everyone must try something for the first time at some point in his or her life.

• expostulate

• assuage

Of course you have the right to ask the waiter for a glass of water, but is there any need to use the ___ tone of a spoiled child?

• petulant

• jaded