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Unit 1
Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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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 excessively; to thrash soundly |
Carping | tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way |
Coherent | holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful |
Congeal | to change from a 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 evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to |
Taciturn | habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little |
Temporize | to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise |
Tenable | capable of being held or defended |