Vocabulary 1 Flashcards
(20 cards)
Able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property
Acquisitive
Claim or take without right
Arrogate
Hackneyed, trite, commonplace
Banal
tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way
Carping
to work excessively; to thrash around
belabor
Holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful
Coherent
to change from liquid from solid, thicken: to make inflexible or rigid.
Congeal
to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model.
Emulate
a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
Encomium
To avoid, shun, keep away from
Eschew
relevant, appropriate,apropos, fitting
Germane
so great or demanding and not to be satisfied
insatiable
refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
intransigent
offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment
invidious
generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions
largesse
a survey made for military purposes; Andy kind of preliminary inspection or examination.
reconnaissance
to establish by evidence, prove
substantiate
habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little
taciturn
to stall or act evasively in order to gain time.
temporize
capable of being held or defended
tenable
