1. Approbation: official phrase or approval
2. Assuage: (a) to make an unpleasant feeling less painful and severe (b) to provide relief; causing to feel better
3. Coalition: (a) a union of two or more political parties that allow them to form a government or fight an election together
4. Decadence: behavior that shows that someone has low moral standards and is more concerned with pleasure than serious matters
5. Elicit: (a) to succeed in getting information or a reaction from someone (b) evoke or draw out a response, answer, or fact from someone in reaction to one's own actions or questions
6. Expostulate: to express strong disapproval, disagreement, or annoyance with someone
7. Hackneyed: a hackneyed phrase is boring and does not have much meaning because it has been used so often (b) (of a phrase or idea) lacking significance through having been overused; unoriginal and trite
8. Hiatus: (a) a break or interruption in an activity (b) a space where something is missing, especially in a piece of writing
9. Intercede: to speak in support of someone, especially in order to try to prevent them from being punished
10. Innuendo: (a) a remark that suggests something sexual or unpleasant without saying it directly, or these remarks in general (b) an allusive remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one
11. Jaded: someone who is jaded is no longer interested in or excited by something, usually because they have experienced too much of it
12. Lurid: (a) very vivid in color, especially so as to create an unpleasant harsh or unnatural effect (b) (of a description, story, etc.) presented in a vividly shocking or sensational terms, and involves violence and sexual matters
13. Meritorious: very good and deserving praise
14. Petulant: behaving in a unreasonable impatient and angry way, like a child
15. Prerogative: a right that someone has, especially because of their importance social position
16. Provincial: someone who comes from a part of the country that is not near the capital, especially someone who is not interested in anything new or different - often used to show disapproval
17. Simulate: (a) to make or produce something that is not real but has the appearance or feeling of being real (b) to pretend to have a feeling
18. Transcend: to go beyond the usual limits of something; surpass
19. Umbrage: to be offended by something that someone has done or said, often without good reason
20. Unctuous: too friendly and praising people too much in a way that seems very insincere
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