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Vocab Level G Unit 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acquisitive | (adj.) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property |
| Arrogate | (v.) to claim or take without right |
| Banal | (adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace |
| Belabor | (v.) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly |
| Carping | (adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n.) petty, nagging criticism |
| Coherent | (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 |