Unit 1 Vocab ENG 12 Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Acquiitive | (adj.)able to get an 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; the thrash soundly |
Carping | (adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n.) petty, nagging criticism |
Coherent | (adj.) holding or stacking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful |
Congeal | (v.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make flexible to 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, to keep away |
Germane | (adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting |
Insatiable | (adj.) so great or demanding an not to be satisfied |
Intransigent | (adj.) refusing to compromise; irreconcilable |
Invidious | (adj.) offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment |
Largesse | (n.) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions |
Reconnaissance | (n.) a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination |
Substantiate | (v.) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to |
Taciturn | (adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talked very little |
Temporize | (v.) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise |
Temporize | (adj.) capable of being held or defended |
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