Vocab Workshop Unit 1 Book G

Question 0

Arrogate

Answer 0

(v.) to claim or take without right.

Question 1

Acquisitive

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Banal

Answer 2

(adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace.

Question 3

Belabor

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Carping

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Coherent

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Congeal

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Emulate

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Encomium

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Eschew

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Germane

Answer 10

(Adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

Question 11

Insatiable

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Intransigent

Answer 12

(Adj.) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable.

Question 13

Invidious

Answer 13

(Adj.) offensive, hateful, tending to cause bitterness and resentment

Question 14

Largesse

Answer 14

(N.) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions

Question 15

Reconnaissance

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Substantiate

Answer 16

(V.) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete substantial form

Question 17

Taciturn

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Temporize

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Tenable

Answer 19

(Adj.) capable of being held or defended