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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 petty,nasty,or hairsplitting way. |
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 a 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 evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation,or postpone a decision;to compromise |
Tenable | capable of being held or defended |