Vocab 1 G

Adj : Acquisitive

Able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or properly.

V: Arrogate

To claim or take without right

Adj: Banal

Hackneyed, trite, commonplace

V: Belabor

To work on excessively; to thrash soundly

Adj: Carping

Tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way

N: Carping

Petty, Nagging criticism

Adj: Coherent

Holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible , meaning

V: Congeal

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

V: Emulate

To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

V: Eschew

To avoid, shun, keep away

Adj: Germane

Relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

Adj: Insatiable

So great or demanding as not to be satisficed

Adj: Intransigent

Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

Adj: Invidious

Offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment

N: Largesse

Generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful

N: Reconnaissance

A survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination

V: Substantiate

To establish by evidence, prove’ to give concrete or substantial

Adj: Taciturn

Habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little

V: Temporize

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

Adj: Tenable

Capable of being help or defended