Sadlier Vocabulary Level G- Unit 1

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Acquisitive
(adj) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property
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Arrogate
(v) to claim or take without right
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Banal
(adj) commonplace
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Belabor
(v) to work on excessively
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Carping
(adj) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way
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Coherent
(adj) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible
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Congeal
(v) to thicken; change from liquid to solid
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Emulate
(v) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model
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Germane
(adj) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting
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Insatiable
(adj) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied
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Intransigent
(adj) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
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Invidious
(adj) offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment
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Largesse
(n) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions
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Reconnaissance
(n) preliminary inspection or examination
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Substantiate
(v) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to
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Taciturn
(adj) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little
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Encomium
n. Formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
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Eschew
v. To avoid or shun
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Temporize
v. To stall or act evasively in order to gain time
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Tenable
adj. Capable of being held or defended