Vocab 1

(adj.) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property.

(v.) to claim or take without right

(adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace

(v.) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

(adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n.) petty, nagging criticism

(adj.) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful

(v.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid

(v.) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

(n.) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

(v.) to avoid, shun, keep away from

(adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

(adj.) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied

(adj.) refusing to compromise; irreconcilable

(adj.) offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness or resentment

generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions

(n.) a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination

(v.) to establsih by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to

(adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little

(v.) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise

(adj.) capable of being held or defended