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Level G Unit 1

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