Thursday, August 22, 2013

Vocabulary: Fall #1

expository: intended to explain or describe something.

composition:  the way in which a whole or mixture is made up.

assuage: make (an unpleasant feeling) less intense.

decadence: moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury.

hackneyed: lacking significance through having been overused. 

coalition: an alliance for combined action, esp. a temporary alliance of political parties forming a government or of states.

transcend: be or go beyond the range or limits of (something abstract, typically a conceptual field or division).

meritorious: deserving reward or praise.

lurid: very vivid in color, esp. so as to create an unpleasantly harsh or unnatural effect.

petulant: childishly sulky or bad-tempered.   

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