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Unit 1
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| acquisitive | able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property |
| arrogate | to claim or take with without right |
| banal | hackneyed, trite, commonplace |
| belabor | to work on excessively; to thrash soundly |
| carping | (adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n.) petty, nagging criticism |
| coherent | holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensive, meaningful |
| congeal | to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible of 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 |