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

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