unit 1 level f. noun definition: a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose....
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UNIT 1
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