VOCABULARY #1

APPROBATION

• THE EXPRESSION OF APPROVAL, PRAISE.

• STUDENTS ALWAYS FEEL MUCH BETTER ABOUT THEIR PROGRESS ONCE THEY RECEIVE APPROBATION FROM THEIR ELDERS.

ASSUAGE

• TO MAKE EASIER OR MILDER, RELIEVE, APPEASE.

• HER FEELINGS WERE HURT AND ALL SHE WANTED WAS FOR HIM TO ASSUAGE HER SADNESS.

COALITION

• A COMBINATION, UNION FOR SOME SPECIFIC PURPOSE.

• A COALITION OF CONSERVATIONISTS IS LOBBYING FOR A NEW FOREST PRESERVATION BILL.

DECADENCE

• A CONDITION OR PERIOD OF DECLINE OR DECAY; EXCESSIVE SELF-INDULGENCE.

• “FRENCH” IMPLIES RICHNESS AND DECADENCE, AND THAT'S THE IDEA OF THIS DELICIOUS ICE CREAM.

ELICIT

• TO DRAW FORTH, BRING OUT FROM SOME SOURCE.

• INTERROGATING A SUSPECT IS A MOST COMMON FORM OF ELICITING FOR INFORMATION.

EXPOSTULATE

• TO ATTEMPT TO DISSUADE SOMEONE FROM SOME COURSE OR DECISION BY EARNEST REASONING; PROTEST.

• STUDENTS OFTEN EXPOSTULATE WITH TEACHERS WHO ASSIGN HOMEWORK OVER THE HOLIDAYS.

HACKNEYED

• USED SO OFTEN AS TO LACK ORIGINALITY.

• HACKNEYED OLD SAYINGS HAVE DEFINITELY RUNS ITS COURSE…“NOW COOL YOUR JETS AND LET’S PRECEDE TO NEXT WORD!”

HIATUS

• A GAP, OPENING, BREAK

• IF THERE IS ONE SIMILARITY BETWEEN STUDENTS AND TEACHERS, IT IS THAT BOTH GREATLY LOOK FORWARD TO ANY BRIEF HIATUS FROM SCHOOL!

INNUENDO

• A HINT, INDIRECT SUGGESTION, OR REFERENCE.

• IF YOU PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE MOVIE, SHREK, YOU WILL NOTICE SOME SLY INNUENDOS BEING USED.

INTERCEDE

• GO-BETWEEN IN A DISAGREEMENT

• I BEGGED HIM TO INTERCEDE FOR MY FRIEND SINCE SHE WAS NOT AT FAULT, BUT HE NEVER DID A THING.

JADED

• WEARIED, WORN-OUT.

• IT IS TOUGH TO FIND A TASTE EXOTIC ENOUGH FOR THE MOST JADED PALATE.

LURID

• CAUSING SHOCK, HORROR; PALE OR SALLOW IN COLOR.

• MOST HORROR FILMS CONTAIN LURID YET GROTESQUE IMAGES THAT ARE HARD TO WATCH.

MERITORIOUS

• WORTHY, DESERVING RECOGNITION.

• MOST WAR VETERANS RECEIVE A MEDAL FOR MERITORIOUS ACTS OF BRAVERY.

PETULANT

• EASILY IRRITATED AND UPSET.

• TEACHERS NEVER RESPOND WELL TO A PETULANT TEENAGER, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT HAS BEEN A LONG AND BUSY DAY…TRUST ME ON THIS!

PREROGATIVE

• A SPECIAL RIGHT OR PRIVILEGE.

• SOMETIMES, UNETHICAL CEO’S TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEIR PREROGATIVE POWER OVER THE COMPANY.

PROVINCIAL

• OF A SIMPLE, PLAIN DESIGN THAT ORIGINATED IN THE COUNTRYSIDE.

• BELLE SAID IT BEST WHEN SHE DECLARED THAT SHE WANTED MORE FROM LIFE THAN WHAT HER PROVINCIAL HOMETOWN COULD OFFER HER.

SIMULATE

• TO MAKE A PRETENSE OF; IMITATE.

• IN MOST INDEPENDENT AND GORY FILMS, KETCHUP IS A CHEAP PROP USED TO SIMULATE BLOOD.

TRANSCEND

• TO RISE ABOVE OR BEYOND.

• IN CLASS, OUR GOAL IS HAVE OUR WRITING SKILLS TO TRANSCEND OVER THE COURSE OF THE SEMESTER.

UMBRAGE

• OFFENSE, RESENTMENT; AN OVERSHADOWING INFLUENCE OR POWER.

• SHE TOOK UMBRAGE AT HIS CRUDE REMARKS.

UNCTUOUS

• TRYING TOO HARD TO GIVE AN IMPRESSION OF EARNESTNESS.

• SHE SEEMED FRIENDLY AT FIRST, UNTIL WE LATER NOTICED HER UNCTUOUS FLATTERY- WHAT A FRAUD!