Vocab #1 (AP lang)

Acquisitive

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

Arrogate

To claim or take without right

Banal

Commonplace, trite, hackneyed

Belabor

To work on excessively (taking a long time)

Carping

Tending to find fault; petty nagging criticism (over criticizing)

Cohearent

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

Congeal

To change from a liquid to solid; thicken

Emulate

To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing them model

Encomium

A formal expression of praise; tribute

Eschew

To avoid, shun, keep away from

Germane

Relevant, appropriate, fitting, apropos

Instaiable

So great or demanding as not to be satisfied

Intransigent

Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

Invidious

Offensive, hateful, cause bitterness and resentment

Largesse

Generosity on giving

Reconnaissance

A survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection

Substantiate

To establish by evidence; prove

Taciturn

Habitually silent or quiet, talk very little

Temporize

To stall or act evasively in order to gain time (procrasinate)

Tenable

Capable of being held or defended