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vocabulary in worshop
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Acquisitive | (ADJ) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property |
| Arrogate | (V) to take or claim without right |
| Banal | (ADJ) hackneyed, trite, commonplace |
| Belabor | (V) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly |
| Carping | (ADJ) tending to find fault, especially in petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (N) petty, nagging, criticism |
| Coheren | (ADJ) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful |
| Congeal | (V) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid |
| Emulate | (V) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model |
| Encomium | (N) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute |
| Eschew | (V) to avoid, shun, keep away from |
| Germane | (ADJ) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting |
| Insatiable | (ADJ) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied |
| Intransigent | (ADJ) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable |
| Invidious | (ADJ) offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment |
| Largesse | (N) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions |
| Reconnaissance | (N) a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination |
| Substantiate | (V) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to |
| Taciturn | (ADJ) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little |
| Temporize | (V) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a conformation, or postpone a decision; to compromise |
| Tenable | capable of being held or defended |