great gatbsy vocabulary 2

the expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise, official approval (n)

• approbation

• coalition

• transcend

• hackneyed

the make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench (v)

• jaded

• innuendo

• assuage

• lurid

a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose (n)

• meritorious

• petulant

• prerogative

• coalition

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

• simulate

• decadence

• unctuous

• provincial

to draw forth, bring out from some source (such as a person) (v)

• intercede

• expostulate

• transcend

• elicit

to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning (v)

• expostulate

• coalition

• umbrage

• approbation

used so often as to lack freshness or originality

• innuendo

• decadence

• hackneyed

• prerogative

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

• umbrage

• meritorious

• hackneyed

• hiatus

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

• innuendo

• petulant

• assuage

• simulate

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

• provincial

• simulate

• intercede

• unctuous