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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 on excessively; to thrash soundly |
Carping | Tending to find fault, especially in a pretty, nasty, or hairsplitting way |
Coherent | Holding or sticking together; making a logical whole |
Congeal | To change from liquid to solid, thicken |
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 |
Largesse | Generosity in giving |
Reconnaissance | A survey made for military purpose |
Substantiate | To establish by evidence, prove |
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 |
Tenable | Capable of being held or defended |