Approbation

(n.) The expression of approval or favorable opinon, praise: offical approval

Synonyms:commendation,sanction

Antonyms:disapproval, condemnation,censure

Assuage

(v.) to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench.

syn:mitigate, alleviate,slake,allay

Ant:intensity, aggravate, exacerbate

Coalition

(n.) a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose.

Syn:alliance, leauge, federation, combine

Ant: splinter group

Decadence

(n.) decline, decay or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self-indulgence.

Syn: degeneration, corruption

Ant: rise, growth, development, maturation

Elicit

(v.) to draw forth, bring out from some source (such as another person)

Syn: call forth, evoke, extract, educe,

Ant: repress, quash, squelch, stifle

Expostulate

(v.) to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision be earnest reasoning.

Syn: protest, remonstrate, complain

Hackneyed

(adj.) used so often as to lack freshness or originality.

Syn: banal, trite, commonplace, corny

Ant: new, fresh, novel, original

Haitus

(n.) a gap, opening, break (in sense of having an element missing)

Syn: pause, lacuna

Ant: continuity, continuation

Innuendo

(n.) a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)

Syn: insinuation, intimation

Ant: direct statement

Intercede

(v.) to plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go between in a disagreement.

syn: intervene, mediate

Jaded

(adj.) wearied, worn-out, dulled (in the sense of being satiated by excessive indulgence)

syn: sated, surfeited, cloyed

ant: unspoiled, uncloyed

Lurid

(adj.) causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in color; terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint.

syn:gruesome, gory, grisly, baleful, ghastly

ant: pleasent, attractive, appealing, wholesome

Meritorious

(adj.) worthy, deserving recognition and praise.

syn: praiseworthy, laudable, commendable

ant: blameworthy, reprehensible, discreditable

Petulant

(adj.) peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irrigated and upset

syn: irribale, testy, waspish

ant: even- tempered, placid, serene, amiable

Prerogative

(adj.) pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook, sountrified in the snese of being limited and backward; of a simple, plan design that originatied in the countryside; (n.) a person with a narrow point of view; a person from an outlying area; a soldier from a province or colony

Syn: (adj.) narrow-minded, parochial, insular, naive

Ant: (adj.) cosmopolitan, catholic, broad-minded

Simulate

(v.) to make a pretense of, imitate; to show the outer signs of

syn: feign, pretend, affect

Transcend

(v.) to rise above or beyond, exceed

syn: surpass, outstrip

Umbrage

(n.) shade cast by trees; foliage giving shade; an overshadowing influence or power; offense; resentment; a vague suspicion

syn: irritation, pique, annoyance

ant: pleasure, delight, satisfaction

Unctuous

(adj.) excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sinceritym or piety; fatty, oily; pliable

syn: mealymouthed, servile, fawning, greasy

ant: gruff, blunt

Provincial

(adj.) pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook, countrified in the sense of being limited and backward; of a simple, plan design that originated in the countryside; (n.) a person with a narrow point of view; a person from an outlying area; a soldier from a province or colony

syn: (adj.) narrow-minded, parochial, insular, naive

ant: (adj.) cosmopolitan, catholic, broadminded