Unit 1 Level F

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Unit 1 Level F. coalition. Noun Definition: a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose. Synonyms: alliance, league, federation, combine Antonym: splinter group - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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LEVEL F

Noun

Definition: a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose.

Synonyms: alliance, league, federation, combine

Antonym: splinter group

Sentence: The various community organizations formed a coalition to lobby against parking laws; this alliance helped to keep the new laws from passing.

COALITION

Noun

Definition: decline, decay or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self-indulgence

Synonyms: degeneration, corruption

Antonyms: rise, growth, maturation

Sentence: Some viewed her love of chocolate as decadence because she ate two candy bars a day; however, this self-indulgence never caused her to gain weight.

DECADENCE

Verb

Definition: to draw forth, bring out from some source

Synonyms: evoke, extract, educe

Antonyms: repress, quash, squelch, stifle

My attempt to elicit information over the phone was met with a barrage of irrelevant recordings; I had to wait for ten minutes to extract the information from a real person.

ELICIT

NounDefinition: a gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing)Synonyms: pause Antonyms: continuity, continuation

She will be on hiatus until October 13th; this vacation was unscheduled, but she does deserve it.

HIATUS

Noun

Definition: a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense)

Synonyms: insinuation, intimation

Antonyms: direct statement

She was carefully spreading innuendos about her opponent’s lack of education: she hoped these hints would help her win the election.

INNUENDO

Verb

Definition: to plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement

Synonyms: intervene, mediate

The referee had to intercede in the dispute between the two players, and soon the game was proceeding again as if he had not acted as a go-between.

INTERCEDE

Adjective

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

Synonyms: sated, apathetic, bored

Antonyms: unspoiled, fresh

She became jaded to the luxuries in life after so many years of living with money; she was wearied by the years of indulgence she had lived.

JADED

Adjective

Definition: worthy, deserving recognition and praise

Synonyms: praiseworthy, laudable, commendable

Antonyms: dishonorable, unworthy, discreditable

She was repeatedly honored for her meritorious work with the victims of the disaster, but she never thought of the work as praiseworthy but simply as her duty as a member of society.

MERITORIOUS

Adjective

Definition: pertaining to an outlying area; local; narrow in mind or outlook, countrified; backward; of a simple plain design that originated in the countryside

Noun

A person with a narrow point of view; a person from an outlying area; a soldier from a province or colony

Synonyms: (adj) narrow-minded, naïve

Antonyms: (adj) cosmopolitan, broad-minded

The banjo, once thought to be a provincial product of the Southern hills, actually came here from Africa; it is a misconception that it is thought of as countrified.

PROVINCIAL

Verb

Definition: to make a pretense of, imitate; to show the outer signs of

Synonyms: feign, pretend, affect

Military training exercises are used to simulate actual warfare; these imitations are for the purpose of readying the unseasoned soldiers for warfare.

SIMULATE

Verb

Definition: to rise above or beyond; exceed

Synonyms: surpass, upstage, outclass

A great work of art may be said to transcend time, and it is remembered beyond the life of the artist and for decades or even centuries.

TRANSCEND

Vincent Van Gogh “Self-Protrait” 1888