(v.) to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench
What is assuage?
100
(v.) to rise above or beyond, exceed
What is transcend?
100
(v.) to plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement
What is intercede?
100
(n.) decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self-indulgence
What is decadence?
100
(adj.) irritable, testy, waspish
What is petulant?
200
(v.) to draw forth, bring out from some source (such as another person)
What is elicit?
200
(n.) a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose
What is coalition?
200
(n.) shade cast by trees; foliage giving shade; offense (to take offense), resentment
What is umbrage?
200
(adj.) excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety; fatty, oily; pliable
What is unctuous?
200
(v.) mitigate, alleviate, slake, allay
What is assuage?
300
(adj.) causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in color; terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint
What is lurid?
300
(adj.) wearied, worn-out, dulled (in the sense of being satiated by excessive indulgence)
What is jaded?
300
(adj.) pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook, countrified in the sense of being limited and backward; of a simple, plain design
(n.) a person with a narrow point of view; a soldier from a province or colony
What is provincial?
300
(n.) a special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence
What is prerogative?
300
(adj.) praiseworthy, laudable, commendable
What is meritorious?
400
(v.) to make a pretense of, imitate; to show the outer signs of
What is simulate?
400
(adj.) peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset
What is petulant?
400
(adj.) worthy, deserving recognition or praise
What is meritorious?
400
(n.) a gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing)
What is hiatus?
400
(v.) intervene, mediate
What is intercede?
500
(n.) a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)
What is innuendo?
500
(adj.) used so often as to lack freshness or originality; cliche
What is hackneyed?
500
(n.) the expression of approval or favorable opinion, praise; official approval
What is approbation?
500
(v.) to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning