English 111 Sadlier-Oxford Vocabulary Level G, Unit 13 Hannah Burwell.
Level F Unit 1 SADLIER- OXFORD VOCABULARY WORKSHOP.
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•Level F•Unit 1
SADLIER- OXFORD VOCABULARY WORKSHOP
APPROBATIONNoun
Definition: the expression of approval or favorable opinion; praise
Synonym: sanction
Antonyms: disapproval, condemnation, censure
Sentence: My broad hint that I had paid for the lessons myself brought smiles of approbation from all the judges at the piano recital: their approval meant a great deal to me.
ASSUAGEVerb
Definition: to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm, to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench
Synonyms: mitigate, slake, allay
Antonyms: intensify, aggravate, exacerbate
Sentence: Her eyes told me that more than a few well-chosen words would be needed to assuage her hurt feelings; I would have to work hard to appease her.
Noun
Definition: a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose.
Synonyms: alliance, league, federation, combine
Antonym: splinter group
Sentence: The various community organizations formed a coalition to lobby against parking laws; this alliance helped to keep the new laws from passing.
COALITION
Noun
Definition: decline, decay or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self-indulgence
Synonyms: degeneration, corruption
Antonyms: rise, growth, maturation
Sentence: Some viewed her love of chocolate as decadence because she ate two candy bars a day; however, this self-indulgence never caused her to gain weight.
DECADENCE
Verb
Definition: to draw forth, bring out from some source
Synonyms: evoke, extract, educe
Antonyms: repress, quash, squelch, stifle
My attempt to elicit information over the phone was met with a barrage of irrelevant recordings; I had to wait for ten minutes to extract the information from a real person.
ELICIT
Verb
Definition: to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning
Synonyms: protest, remonstrate, complain
Elizabeth found it useless to expostulate with her brother for siding with her boss; all of her protesting just seemed to alienate him.
EXPOSTULATE
Adjective
Definition: used so often as to lack freshness or originality
Synonyms: banal, trite, commonplace, corny
Antonyms: new, fresh, novel, original
The jokes about dumb blondes are hackneyed and offensive, so please quit telling those trite and unpleasant anecdotes.
HACKNEYED
NounDefinition: a gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing)Synonyms: pause, lacunaAntonyms: continuity, continuationShe will be on hiatus until October 13th; this vacation was unscheduled, but she does deserve it.
HIATUS
Noun
Definition: a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)
Synonyms: insinuation, intimation
Antonyms: direct statement
She was carefully spreading innuendos about her opponent’s lack of education: she hoped these hints would help her win the election.
INNUENDO
Verb
Definition: to plead on behalf of someone else; to save as a third party or go-between in a disagreement
Synonyms: intervene, mediate
The referee had to intercede in the dispute between the two players, and soon the game was proceeding again as if he had not acted as a go-between.
INTERCEDE
Adjective
Definition: wearied, worn-out, dulled (in the sense of being satiated by excessive indulgence)
Synonyms: sated, surfeited, cloyed
Antonyms: unspoiled, uncloyed
She became jaded to the luxuries in life after so many years of living with money; she was wearied by the years of indulgence she had lived.
JADED
Adjective
Definition: causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in color; terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint
Synonyms: gruesome, gory, grisly, baleful, ghastly
Antonyms: pleasant, attractive, appealing, wholesome
The details of the accident were detailed and lurid; in fact, they were so gruesome that they would shock anyone who read the paper.
LURID
Adjective
Definition: worthy, deserving recognition and praise
Synonyms: praiseworthy, laudable, commendable
Antonyms: blameworthy, reprehensible
She was repeatedly honored for her meritorious work with the victims of the disaster, but she never thought of the work as praiseworthy but simply as her duty as a member of society.
MERITORIOUS
Adjective
Definition: peevish, annoyed by trifles; easily irritated and upset
Synonyms: irritable, testy, waspish
Antonyms: amiable, placid
An overworked parent may be unlikely to indulge the complaints of a petulant child; the irritable child is likely to simply stress the parent more.
PETULANT
Noun
Definition: a special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence
Synonyms: perquisite, perk
He seemed to feel that a snooze at his desk was not an annoying habit but the prerogative of a veteran employee; but this imagined privilege was only in his mind.
PREROGATIVE
Adjective
Definition: pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook, countrified; backward; of a simple plain design that originated in the countryside
Noun
A person with a narrow point of view; a person from an outlying area; a soldier from a province or colony
Synonyms: (adj) narrow-minded, parochial, insular, naïve
Antonyms: (adj) cosmopolitan, broad-minded
The banjo, once thought to be a provincial product of the Southern hills, actually came here from Africa; it is a misconception that it is thought of as countrified.
PROVINCIAL
Verb
Definition: to make a pretense of, imitate; to show the outer signs of
Synonyms: pretend, affect
Military training exercises are used to simulate actual warfare; these imitations are for the purpose of readying the unseasoned soldiers for warfare.
SIMULATE
Verb
Definition: to rise above or beyond; exceed
Synonyms: surpass, outstrip
A great work of art may be said to transcend time, and it is remembered beyond the life of the artist and for decades or even centuries.
TRANSCEND
Van Gogh
Noun
Definition: shade cast by trees; foliage giving shade; an overshadowing influence or power; offense, resentment; a vague suspicion
Synonyms: irritation, pique
Antonyms: pleasure, delight, satisfaction
Taking umbrage at the joke, Elizabeth stormed out of the room, but we didn’t think her offense was justified.
UMBRAGE
Adjective
Definition: excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety; fatty, oily; pliable
Synonyms: mealy-mouthed, fawning, greasy
Antonyms: gruff, blunt
The unctuous salesman tried too hard, pushing us away from his sale; his fawning behavior just repulsed us.
UNCTUOUS