Sadlier unit 1 and 2

Acquisitive

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

Arrogate

To claim or take without right

Banal

Hackneyed, trite, commonplace (unoriginal, insignificant, overused)

Belabor 

To work on excessively; to thrash soundly 

Carping

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

Coherent

Holding of or sticking together; making a logic whole; comprehensible, meaningful

Congeal

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

Emulate

To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

Encomium

A formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

Eschew

To avoid, shun, keep away from

Germane

Relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

Insatiable

So great or demanding as not to be satisfied

Intransigent

Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

Invidious 

Offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment 

Largesse

Generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions

Reconnaissance

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

Substantiate

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

Taciturn

Habitually silent or quiet; inclined to talk very little 

Temporize

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

Tenable

Capable of being held or defended

Accost

To approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way 

Animadversion

A comment indicating a strong criticism or disapproval

Avid

Desirous of something to the point of greed

Brackish

Having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink

Celerity

Swiftness, rapidity of motion or action

Devious

Straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way 

Gambit

In chess; an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage 

Halcyon

A legendary bird identified with the kingfisher

Histrionic

Pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial, melodramatic

Incendiary

Deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion 

Maelstrom

A whirlpool of great size and violence: a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction 

Myopic

Nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment 

Overt

Open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized 

Pejorative 

Tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling 

Propierity

The state of being proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable 

Sacrilege 

Improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred

Summarily

Without delay or formality; briefly concisely

Suppliant 

Asking humbly and earnestly

Talisman

An object that served as charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetishi

Undulate

To move in waves or with a wavelike motion; have a wavelike form