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unit 1 vocab E
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acquisitive | able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property |
| arrogate | to clam or take without right |
| banal | plain ex. white shirt |
| belabor | to work on excessively |
| carping | tending to find fault, especialy in a petty, nasty way |
| coherent | holding or sticking together |
| congeal | to change from a liquid to a solid |
| emulate | to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model |
| encomium | a formal expression of praise |
| eschew | to aviod,shun,keep away from |
| germane | relevent,appropiate,apropos,fitting |
| insatiable | so great or demanding as not to be satisfied |
| intransigent | refusing to compromise |
| invidious | offensive,hateful;tending to cause bitterness ad resentment |
| largesse | generosity in giving;lavish or bountiful contributions |
| reconnaissance | a survey made for military purposes |
| substantiate | to establish by evidence,prove |
| taciturn | habitually silent or quiet,incline to talk very little |
| temporize | to stall of act evasively in order to gain time,aviod a confrontation,or postpone a decision;to compromise |
| tenable | capable of being held or defended |