ELA 3 Unit 1 Vocab

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Across
  1. 4. (n.) the expression of approval or favorable opinion,praise; official approval | SYNONYMS: sanction | ANTONYMS: disapproval, condemnation, censure
  2. 5. (adj.) excessively smooth or smug; trying too hard to give an impression of earnestness, sincerity, or piety; fatty, oily; pliable | SYNONYMS: mealymouthed, fawning, greasy | ANTONYMS: gruff, blunt
  3. 6. (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 that originated in the countryside; (n.) a person with a narrow point of view a person from an outlying area; a soldier from a province or colony | SYNONYMS (adj.): marrow-minded, parochial, insular, naive | ANTONYMS (adj.): cosmopolitan, broad-minded
  4. 7. (v.) to make pretense of, imitate; to show the outer signs of | SYNONYMS: pretend, affect
  5. 11. (v.) to rise above or beyond, exceed | SYNONYMS: surpass, outstrip
  6. 14. (adj.) used so often as to lack freshness or originality | SYNONYMS: banal, trite, commonplace, corny | ANTONYMS: new, fresh, novel, original
  7. 15. (n.) decline, decay, or deterioration; a condition or period of decline or decay; excessive self-indulgence | SYNONYMS: degeneration, corruption | ANTONYMS: rise, growth, maturation
  8. 16. (n.) a gap, opening, break (in the sense of having an element missing) | SYNONYMS: pause, lacuna | ANTONYMS: continuity, continuation
  9. 18. (adj.) worthy, deserving recognition and praise | SYNONYMS: praiseworthy, laudable, commendable | ANTONYMS: blameworthy, reprehensible
  10. 19. (adj.) wearied, worn-out, dulled (in the sense of being satiated by excessive indulgence) | SYNONYMS: | sated surfeited, cloyed | ANTONYMS: unspoiled, uncloyed
  11. 20. (n.) shade cast by trees; foliage giving shade; an overshadowing influence or power; offense, resentment; a vague suspicion | SYNONYMS: irritation, pique | ANTONYMS: pleasure, delight, satisfaction
Down
  1. 1. (n.) a special right or privilege; a special quality showing excellence | SYNONYMS: perquisite, perk
  2. 2. (n.) a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose | SYNONYMS: alliance, league, federation, combine | ANTONYMS: splinter group
  3. 3. (v.) to attempt to dissuade someone from some course or decision by earnest reasoning; to convince someone away from a point of view | SYNONYMS: protest, remonstrate, complain
  4. 8. (n.) a hint, indirect suggestion, or reference (often in a derogatory sense) | SYNONYMS: insinuation, intimation | ANTONYM: direct statement
  5. 9. (adj.) causing shock, horror, or revulsion; sensational; pale or sallow in color; terrible or passionate in intensity or lack of restraint | SYNONYMS: gruesome, gory, grisly, baleful, ghastly | ANTONYMS: pleasant, attractive, appealing, wholesome
  6. 10. (adj.) peevish, annoyed by trifles, easily irritated and upset (pet-peeves) | SYNONYMS: irritable, testy, waspish | ANTONYMS: amiable, placid
  7. 12. (v.) to plead on behalf of someone else; to serve as a third party or go-between in a disagreement | SYNONYMS: intervene, mediate
  8. 13. (v.) to draw forth/out, to bring out from some source (such as another person) | SYNONYMS: evoke, extract, educe | ANTONYMS: repress, quash, squelch, stifle
  9. 17. (v.) to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench | SYNONYMS: mitigate, slake, allay | ANTONYMS: intensify, aggravate, exacerbate