Vocab unit 1 level G

Question 1

acquisitive

Accepted Answer

able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property

Question 2

arrogate

Accepted Answer

to claim or take without right

Question 3

banal

Accepted Answer

hackneyed, trite, commonplace

Question 4

belabor

Accepted Answer

to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

Question 5

carping

Accepted Answer

tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; petty, nagging criticism

Question 6

coherent

Accepted Answer

holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful

Question 7

congeal

Accepted Answer

to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid

Question 8

emulate

Accepted Answer

to imitate with the intent of aqualing or surpassing the model

Question 9

encomium

Accepted Answer

a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

Question 10

eschew

Accepted Answer

to avoid, shun, keep away from

Question 11

germane

Accepted Answer

relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

Question 12

insatiable

Accepted Answer

so great or demanding as not to be satisfied.

Question 13

intransigent

Accepted Answer

refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

Question 14

invidious

Accepted Answer

offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment

Question 15

largesse

Accepted Answer

generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions

Question 16

reconnaissance

Accepted Answer

a survey made for military purposes; any kind of prelimiary inspection or examination

Question 17

substantiate

Accepted Answer

to establish by evidence, to prove; to give concrete or substantial

Question 18

temporize

Accepted Answer

to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpose a decision; to compromise

Question 19

tenable

Accepted Answer

capable of being help or defended

Question 20

taciturn

Accepted Answer

habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little

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