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Expressing Approval and Relieving Tensions with Assuage and Approbation

Discover the meanings and synonyms of approbation and assuage, and learn how to use them effectively in sentences. Explore the concepts of coalition, decadence, elicit, expostulate, hackneyed, hiatus, innuendo, and intercede.

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Expressing Approval and Relieving Tensions with Assuage and Approbation

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  1. VocabularyLevel FUnit 1 Part A

  2. approbation expostulate assuage hackneyed coalition hiatus decadence innuendo elicit intercede

  3. approbation • The expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval

  4. Approbation:

  5. Approbation Synonyms: commendation, sanction Sentence: My broad hint that I had paid for the lessons myself brought smiles of approbation from all the judges at the piano recital.

  6. assuage • To make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench

  7. Assuage:

  8. assuage Synonyms: mitigate, alleviate, slake, allay Sentence: Her eyes told me that more than a few well-chose words would be needed to assuage her hurt feelings.

  9. Coalition • A combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose

  10. Coalition:

  11. coalition Synonyms: alliance, league, federation, combine Sentence: The various community organizations formed a coalition to lobby against parking laws.

  12. decadence • Decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self-indulgence

  13. Decadence:

  14. decadence Synonyms: degeneration, corruption Sentence: Some characterized her love of chocolate as decadence because she ate at least two candy bars a day.

  15. elicit • To draw forth, bring out from some source (such as another person)

  16. Elicit:

  17. elicit • Synonyms: call forth, evoke, extract, educe • Sentence: My attempt to elicit information over the phone was met with a barrage of irrelevant recordings.

  18. expostulate • To attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning

  19. Expostulate:

  20. Expostulation • Synonyms: protest, remonstrate, complain • Sentence: Shakespeare’s Hamlet finds it useless to expostulate with his mother for siding with his stepfather.

  21. hackneyed • Used so often as to lack freshness or originality

  22. Hackneyed:

  23. hackneyed • Synonyms: banal, trite, commonplace, corny • Sentence: The Great Gatsby tells a universal story without being ruined by hackneyed prose and description.

  24. hiatus • A gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing)

  25. Hiatus:

  26. hiatus • Synonym: pause • Sentence: I was awakened not by a sudden sound but by a hiatus in the din of traffic.

  27. innuendo • A hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)

  28. Innuendo:

  29. innuendo • Synonyms: insinuation, intimation • Sentence: Those lacking the facts or afraid of reprisals often tarnish an enemy’s reputation by use of innuendo.

  30. intercede • To plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement

  31. Intercede:

  32. intercede • Synonyms: intervene, mediate • Sentence: She will intercede in the dispute between the two children, and soon they will be playing happily again.

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