Sadlier Unit 1 Level G

Acquisitive

( adj.) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property

SYN: greedy, grasping, avaricious, retentive

ANT: altrustic, unretentive

Arrogate

(v.) to claim or take without right

SYN: expropriate, usurp, commandeer

ANT: relinquish, renounce, abdicate, abandon

Banal

(adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace

SYN: stale, insipid

ANT: fresh, novel, original, new

Belabor

(v.) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

SYN: overwork

Carping

(adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n.) petty, nagging, criticism

SYN: nit-picking, caviling

ANT: approving, uncritical

Coherent

(adj.) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful

SYN: connected, unified, consistent, cohesive

ANT: muddled, chaotic, disjointed

Congeal

(v.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid

SYN: harden, jell, coagulate, solidify

ANT: melt liquify

Emulate

(v.) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

SYN: copy, mimic, rival, match, measure up to

Encomium

(n.) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

SYN: panegyric, eulogy, commendation

ANT: condemnation, castigation, criticism

Eschew

(v.) to avoid, shun, keep away from

SYN: abstain from, steer clear of, forgo

ANT: embrace, adopt

Germane

(adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

SYN: pertinent

ANT: irrelevant, extraneous, inappropriate

Insatiable

(adj.) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied

SYN: unquenchable, ravenous, voracious

Intransigent

(adj.) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

SYN: uncompromising, unyielding, obdurate

ANT: lukewarm, halfhearted, yielding

Invidious

(adj.) offensivee, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment

SYN: malicious, spiteful, prejudicial, pejorative

ANT: complimentary, flattering, ameliorative

Largesse

(n.) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions

SYN: liberality, munificence, bounty

ANT: stinginess, miserliness, niggardless

Reconnaissance

(n.) a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination

SYN: scouting expedition

Substantiate

(v.) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to

SYN: verify, confirm, validate, authenticate

ANT: refute, disprove, invalidate

Taciturn

(adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little

SYN: tight-lipped, uncommunicative, laconic,

ANT: garrulous, loquacious, prolix, verbose

Temporize

(v.) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise

SYN: hedge, dillydally, procrastinate

Tenable

(adj.) capable of being held or defended

SYN: defensible, justifiable, maintainable

ANT: indefensible, unjustifiable