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Vocab G1
Question | Answer |
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acquisitive | able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property. |
arrogate | to claim or take without right. |
banal | hackneyed, trite, commonplace. |
belabor | to work on excessively; to thrash soundly. |
carping | tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way. petty, nagging criticism. |
coherent | holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible' meaningful. |
congeal | to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid. |
emulate | to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model. |
encomium | a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute. |
eschew | to avoid, shun, keep away from. |
germane | relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting. |
insatiable | so great or demanding as not to be satisfied. |
intransigent | refusing to compromise, irreconcilable. |
invidious | offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment. |
largesse | generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions. |
reconnaissance | a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination. |
substantiate | to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to. |
taciturn | habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little. |
temporize | to stall or act in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise. |
tenable | capable of being held or defended. |