sadlier level g - unit 1

Acquisitive

Acquisitive

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

Arrogate

(v.) To claim or take without right.

Banal

(adj.) Hackneyed, trite, commonplace.

Belabor

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

Carping

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

Coherent

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

Congeal

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

Emulate

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

Encomium

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

Eschew

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

Germane

(adj.) Relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting.

Insatiable

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

Intransigent

(adj.) Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable.

Invidious

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

Largesse

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

Reconnaissance

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

Substantiate

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

Taciturn

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

Temporize

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

Tenable

(adj.) Capable of being held or defended.