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English IV CP Unit I
Unit I Vocab. words to be tested on
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 excessively; to thrash soundly |
| Carping | tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; petting nagging criticism |
| Coherent | holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible meaning |
| 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 |
| Eschew | to avoid, shun, steer clear of, forgo |
| 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 |
| Largess | 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 quite, 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 |