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Unit 1
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acquistive | able to get and rain ideas or information |
| arrogate | to claim or take without right |
| banal | hackneyed, trite, commonplace |
| belabor | to work on excessively |
| carping | tending to find fault, expecially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way |
| coherent | holding or sticking together |
| congeal | to change from liquid to solid, thicken |
| emulate | to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model |
| encomium | a formal expression or praise |
| eschew | to aviod, keep away from |
| germane | relevant |
| insatiable | so great or demanding as not to be satisfied |
| intransigent | refusing to compromise, irreconciable |
| invidious | offensive, hateful |
| largesse | generosity in giving |
| reconnaissance | a survey made for militay purposes |
| substantiate | to establish by evidence, prove |
| tactiturn | habitually silent or quiet |
| temporize | to stall or act evasively in order to gain time |
| tenable | capable of being held or defended |