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Level G Vocab
Unit 1
Term | Definition |
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acquisitive | able to get and retain ideas or information, concerned with acquiring wealth or property syn: avaricious, retentive ant: altruistic, unretentive |
arrogate | to claim or take without right syn: expropriate, usurp, commandeer ant: relinquish, renounce, abdicate, abandon |
banal | hackneyed, trite, commonplace syn: stale, insipid ant: |
belabor | to work on excessively, to thrash soundly syn: overwork |
carping | tending to find fault, in a petty/nasty way, nagging criticism syn: nit-picking, caviling |
coherent | holding or sticking together, making a logical whole, comprehensible, meaningful syn: connected, unified, consistent, cohesive ant: muddled, chaotic, disjointed |
congeal | change from solid to liquid, make inflexible or rigid syn: harden, jell, coagulate, solidify ant: melt, liquefy |
emulate | to intimate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model syn: copy, mimic, rival, match, measure up to |
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