Sadlier units 1 and 2 level g

Acquisitive

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

Arrogate

The claim or take without right

Banal

Hackneyed, trite, commonplace 

Belabor

To work on excessively; to thrash soundly 

carping

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

Coherent

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

Congeal

Change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid

Emulate

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 surgery 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

The installer actively in order to gain time of avoid a confrontation or postpone 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 strong criticism or disapproval

Avid

Desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager 

Brackish 

Having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink 

Celerity 

Swiftness, rapidity of motion or action 

Devious

Starting 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; any opening move of this type 

Halcyon

A legendary bird identified with the kingfisher

Histrionic 

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

Incendiary 

One who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife

Maelstrom

A whirpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirpool 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 

Propriety 

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

Sacrilege

Improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred  

Summarily

Wihtiut delay or formality; briefly, concisely

Suppliant

One who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor

Talisman 

An object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish

Undulate

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