Honors English Semester 2 Vocab-Anderson

Acquisitive

(adj) concerned with acquiring wealth or property.

Synonyms: greedy, rapacious

Arrogate

(v) to claim or take without rights.

Synonyms: assume, preempt

Banal

(adj) hackneyed, trite, commonplace.

Synonyms: bland, everyday

Belabor

(v) to work on excessively.

Synonyms: overwork, repeat

Carping

(v) to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way.

Synonyms: grumbling, hypercritical

Coherent

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

Synonyms: logical, oderly, rational

Congeal

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

Synonyms: curdle, gelatinate

Emulate

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

Synonyms: imitate, challenge, compete with

Encomium

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

Synonyms: accolade, eulogy

Eschew

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

Synonyms: renounce, shy off