the expression of approval or favorable opinion NOUN

syn: commendation, sanction

antonyms: disaproval, condemntation, censure

to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm. VERB

syn: mitigate alleviate slake allay

antonyms: intenisfy aggravate exacerbate

a combination, union NOUN

syn: alliance league federation combine

antonyms: splinter group

decline, decay or deterioration NOUN

syn: degeneration, corruption

antonyms: rise growth development maturation

to draw forth, brong out from some source VERB

syn: call forth, evoke, extract, educe

antonyms: repress, quash, squelch, stifle

to attempt to dissuade someone form some course or decison by earnest reasoning VERB

syn: protest, remonstrate, complain

used so often as to lack freshness ADJ

syn: banal, trite, commonplace, corny

antonyms: new, fresh, novel, original

a gap, opening, brake NOUN

syn: pause, lacuna

antonyms: continuity, contination

a hint, indirect suggestion NOUN

syn: insinuation, intimation

A: direct statement

to plead on behalf of someone else VERB

S: intervene, mediate

wearied, worn out, dulled ADJ

S: sated, surfeited, cloyed

A: unspoiled, uncloyed

causing shock, horror, or revulsion ADJ

S: gruesome, gory, grisly, baleful, ghastly

A: pleasant, attractive, appealing, wholesome

worth, deserving recognition and praise ADJ

S: praiseworthy, laudable, commendable

A: blameworthy, reprehensible, discredible

peevish, annoyed by trifles ADJ

S: irritable, testy, waspish

A: even-tempered, placid, serene, amiable

a special right or privilege NOUN

S: perquisite, perk

ADJ pertaining to an outlying area; NOUN a person with a norrow point of view

S: narrow-minded, parachial, insular, naive

A: cosmopolitan, catholic, broad-minded

to a pretense of, imitate VERB

S: feign, pretend, affect

to ride above or beyond VERB

S: surpass, outstrip

shade cast by trees; offensive, resentment NOUN

S: irritation, pique, annoyance

A: pleasure, delight, satisfaction

excessively smooth or smug, trying to hard to give an impression. ADJ

S: mealymouthed, servile, fawning, greasy

A: gruff, blunt