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11th Grade
09/12/2010

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Simulate
Definition
To feign, Pretend, Affect
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Coalition
Definition
An Alliance, A Combination
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Innuendo
Definition
An Insinuation, Imitation, a hunt, a reference
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Expostulate
Definition
to discuss, exmamine, reason earnestly with a person.
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Petulant
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Isolent or rude in speech or behavior, irritable, testy
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Provincial
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Pertaining to an outlying area. A person with a narrow point of view, a person from an outlying area
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Unctuous
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Servile, Fawning, mealy-mouthed, oily, excessively smooth, trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness.
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Jaded
Definition
Exhausted, wearied, worn-out, dulled, sated
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Prerogative
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a special right or privilege, a prequisite, a special quality showing excellence
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Assuage
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Easy, pacify, alleviate, to relieve, to quiet, to calm
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Hiatus
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A gap, a pause, an opening, a break
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Intercede
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to intervene, mediate, please of behalf of someone else, to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement
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Elicit
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To call forth, bring out from some source, evoke, extract
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Hackneyed
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Trite, commonplace, banal, corny, used to often as to lack freshness
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Lurid
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Causing shock, horror or revulsiom, gruesome, gory, grisly, ghastly, sensational, terrible, or passionate,pale or sallow in color
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Decadence
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NOUN, decline, decay, degeneration, a condition or period of decline or decay, excessive self-indulgence
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Transcend
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To rise above or beyond, exceed
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Umbrage
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A feeling of resentment often at some fancied slight or offense, a vague suspicion, an overshadowing influence or power, foliage giving shade, shade cast by trees
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Meritorious
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Worthy, deserving recognition and praise, laudable commendable
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Approbation
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NOUN, The expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise, official approval or sanction.
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