Vocab AP LANG week 1

Approbation

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

assuage

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

Coalition

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

Decadence

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

Elicit

(v) to draw forth, to bring out from some source (like another person)

Expostulate

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

Hackneyed

(adj) used so often as to lack freshness or originality

Hiatus

(n) a gap, opening, break (element is missing)

Innuendo

(n) a hint, indirect suggestion or reference (derogatory)

Intercede

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

Jaded

(adj) wearied, worn-out, dulled (satiated by excessive indulgance)

Lurid

(adj) causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or shallow in color; terrible/passionate in intensity or lack of restraint

Meritorious

(adj) worthy, deserving recognition and praise

Petulant

(adj) peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset

Perogative

(n) a special right/privilege; a special quality, showing excellence

Provincial

(adj) pertaining to an outlying area;local narrow in mind/outlook countrified in a sense of being limited and backward of a simple, plain design that originated in the countryside; (n) a person with a narrow point of view; a person from an outlying area; a soldier from a province/colony

Simulate

(v) to make a pretense of, imitate, to show the outer signs of

Transcend

(v) to rise above/beyond, exceed

Umbrage

(n) shade east by trees; foliage giving shade; an overshadowing influence/power;offense,resentment;a vague suspicion

Unctous

(adj) excessively smooth or smug;trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or petty,fatty, oily, pliable