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Vocabulary Level G 1
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; (n.) petty, nagging criticism. |
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 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. |