Vocabulary Lecture Flashcards

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Acquisitive (Sense 1)

Able to get or retain ideas or information.

Acquisitive (Sense 2)

Concerned with acquiring wealth or property.

Arrogate

To claim or take without right.

Banal

Hackneyed, trite, commonplace.

Belabor (Sense 1)

To work on excessively.

Belabor (Sense 2)

To thrash soundly.

Carping (Adjective)

Tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty or hair splitting way.

Carping (Noun)

Petty, nagging, criticism.

Coherent

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

Congeal (Sense 1)

To change from liquid to solid, thicken.

Congeal (Sense 2)

To make inflexible or rigid.

Emulate

To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model.

Encomium

A formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute.

Inviteus (Sense 1)

Offensive, hateful.

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.

Inviteus (Sense 2)

Tending to cause bitterness and resentment.

Largesse

Generosity in giving, lavish or bountiful contributions.

Reconnaissance (Sense 1)

A survey made for military purposes.

Reconnaissance (Sense 2)

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 (Sense 1)

To stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision.

Temporize (Sense 2)

To compromise.

Tenable

Capable of being held or defended.

HARP ON the same point again and again

belabor

the GRASPING real estate developer

acquisitive

tries to COPY her social graces

emulate

tends to HEDGE when confronted by direct questions

temporize

the NIT-PICKING comments of a perfectionist

carping

the VORACIOUS hunger

insatiable

led the SCOUTING EXPEDITION

reconnaissance

was thanked for her MUNIFICENCE

largesse

could not VERIFY the alibi

substantiate

received a well-deserved COMMENDATION

encomium

blood that does not COAGULATE

congeal

was PERTINENT to the investigation

germane

OBDURATE on certain points

intransigent

a JUSTIFIABLE reason for disagreeing

tenable

tried to USURP control of the finances

arrogate

made a very COMPLIMENTARY (ant.) remark

invidious

questioned the GARRULOUS (ant.) witness

taciturn

the NOVEL (ant.) lyrics to that song

banal

a DISJOINTED (ant.) essay of foreign policy

coherent

ADOPTED (ant.) the use of technology

eschewed

acquisitive

Synonyms: greedy, avaricious, retentive | Antonyms: altruistic

arrogate

Synonyms: expropriate, commandeer | Antonyms: renounce, abdicate, abandon

banal

Synonyms: stale, insipid | Antonyms: fresh, original, new

belabor

Synonyms: overwork

carping

Synonyms: nit-picking, caviling | Antonyms: approving, uncritical

coherent

Synonyms: connected, unified, consistent, cohesive | Antonyms: muddled, chaotic, disjointed

congeal

Synonyms: harden, jell, solidify | Antonyms: liquefy

emulate

Synonyms: copy, mimic, rival, match, measure up to | Antonyms: embrace, adopt

encomium

Synonyms: panegyric, eulogy | Antonyms: condemnation, castigation, criticism

eschew

Synonyms: abstain from, steer clear of, forgo | Antonyms: embrace, adopt

germane

Synonyms: pertinent | Antonyms: irrelevant, extraneous, inappropriate

insatiable

Synonyms: unquenchable, ravenous

intransigent

Synonyms: uncompromising, unyielding, obdurate | Antonyms: lukewarm, halfhearted, yielding

invidious

Synonyms: malicious, spiteful, prejudicial, pejorative | Antonyms: flattering, ameliorative

largesse

Synonyms: liberality, bounty | Antonyms: stinginess, miserliness, niggardliness

reconnaissance

Synonyms: exploration

substantiate

Synonyms: confirm, validate, authenticate | Antonyms: refute, disprove, invalidate

taciturn

Synonyms: tight-lipped, uncommunicative, laconic | Antonyms: garrulous, loquacious, prolix, verbose

temporize

Synonyms: dillydally, procrastinate

tenable

Synonyms: defensible, justifiable, maintainable | Antonyms: indefensible, unjustifiable