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Unit 1
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Acquisitive | Able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property. |
| 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; making a logical whole comprehensible, meaningful. |
| Congeal | To change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or 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 |
| Invidious | Offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment. |
| Largesse | Generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions |
| Reconnaissance | A survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination |
| Substantiate | To establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to |
| Taciturn | Habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little |
| Temporize | To stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise |
| Tenable | Capable of being held or defended |