unti 1 &2 vocab

Acquisitive

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

Arrogate

To claim or take without right

Banal

hackneyed, trite, commonplace

Belabor

To work on excessively, to thrash soundly

Carping

petty, nagging criticism

Coherent

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

Congeal

To change from liquid to solid, thicken, to make inflexible or rigid

Emulate

To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

Encomium

Hey formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

Eschew

To avoid, shun, keep away from

Germane

Revelyn, 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 survey made for military purposes, any kind of preliminary inspection or examination

Substantiate

To establish by evidence, proof, to give concrete or substantial form to

Taciturn

Habitually Silence or quiet, inclined to talk very little

Temporize

To stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a 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 common indicating strong criticism or disapproval

Avid

desirous of some thing to the point of greed, intensely eager

Brackish

Having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink

Celerity

Swiftness, rapidity of motion or action

Devious

Straying or wandering from a street or a direct course, done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way

Gambit

In chess, and opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor peace in order to gain a later advantage, any opening move of this type

Halcyon

happy peaceful golden prosperous affluent

Histrionic

Pertaining to actors in their techniques, theatrical, artificial, melodramatic

Incendiary

Deliberately setting or causing fires, designed to start fires, tending to stir up strife or rebellion

Maelstrom

A whirlpool of great size and violence, your situation resembling a world pool in violence and destruction

Myopic

Near sighted, lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation, lacking foresight or discernment

Overt

Open, not hidden

Pejorative

Tending to make words, expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, belittling

Propriety

The state of being proper, Appropriateness

Sacrilege

Improper or disrespectful treatment of some thing held sacred

Summarily

Without delay or formality, briefly

Suppliant

Asking humbly and earnestly

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 wave like motion, to have a wave like appearance or form