Vocab Unit 1

to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm

• hiatus

• assuage

• elicit

• meritorious

offense, resentment

• umbrage

• petulant

• elicit

• hackneyed

a gap, opening, break

• assuage

• petulant

• hiatus

• umbrage

a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose

• meritorious

• elicit

• hiatus

• coalition

to draw forth, bring out from some source

• elicit

• hiatus

• assuage

• hackneyed

to rise above or beyond, exceed

• assuage

• transcend

• elicit

• umbrage

a special right or privilege

• meritorious

• transcend

• prerogative

• hackneyed

easily irritated and upset, annoyed by small things

• petulant

• coalition

• transcend

• assuage

worthy, deserving recognition and praise

• elicit

• petulant

• meritorious

• hackneyed

used so often as to lack freshness or originality

• hackneyed

• petulant

• transcend

• hiatus