Rolling Vocab Quiz 1

Approbation

praise; official approval

Lugubrious

looking/sounding sad or dimal

Decadence

decline, decay, deterioration; excessive self-indul

Paradigm

example; pattern

Unctuous

excessively smooth or smug; pliable

Assuage

to relieve; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench

Sangfroid

composure or coolness

Extrabate

to make more violent or intense; to make a bad situation worse

Innocuous

harmless; inoffensive

Proliferating

multiplying; rapidly increasing in numbers