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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 with without right |
banal | hackneyed, trite, commonplace |
belabor | to work on excessively; to thrash soundly |
carping | (adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n.) petty, nagging criticism |
coherent | holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensive, meaningful |
congeal | to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible of 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 |