Wednesday, August 21, 2013

vocab: fall #1

Expository-intended to explain or describe something
Composition- nature of something's ingredients
Assuage- unpleasant feeling relieved
Decadence-  moral or cultural decline especially after a peak at achievement
Hackneyed- lacking significance through having been overused
Coalition-alliance for combined action, especially a temporary alliance of political parties forming a government or of states
Transcend-be or to go
Meritorious- deserving reward or praise
Lurid- vivid in color especially so as to create a very unpleasantly or unnatural effect
Petulant- childishly sulks or bad tempered

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