able to get and retain ideas or info

to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way

to change from liquid to solid, thicken

to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

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English 4

Vocabulary Definitions & terms Unit 1 1st ten

Term	Definition
Acquisitive	able to get and retain ideas or info
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
Congeal	to change from liquid to solid, thicken
Emulate	to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model
Encomium	a formal expression of praise
Eschew	to avoid, shun, keep away from