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(n.) a hint, indirect suggestion or reference (often in a derogatory sense)
Synonyms: insinuation, intimation
Antonym: direct statement
What is Innuendo?
(adj.) used so often as to lack freshness or originality
Synonyms: banal, trite, commonplace, corny
Antonyms: new, fresh, novel, original
What is Hackneyed?
(n.) a gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing)
Synonyms: pause, lacuna
Antonyms: continuity, continuation
What is Hiatus?
(v.) To plead on behalf of someone else
Synonyms: intervene, mediate
What is Intercede?
(v.) to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning
Synonyms: protest, remonstrate, complain
What is expostulate?
(v.) to draw forth, bring out from some source (such as another person)
Synonyms: evoke, extract, educe
Antonyms: repress, quash, squelch, stifle
What is elicit?
(n.) decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self-indulgence
Synonyms: degeneration, corruption
Antonyms: rise, growth, maturation
What is decadence?
(n.) a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose
Synonyms: alliance, league, federation, combine
Antonyms: splinter group
What is decadence?
(v.) 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
What is assuage?
(n.) the expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval
Synonyms: sanction
Antonyms: disapproval, condemnation, exacerbate
What is approbation?