VOCAB. UNIT

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

- greedy, avaricious, retentive

AQUISITIVE

To claim or take without right

- usurp, commandeer, expropriate

ARROGATE

Hackneyed, trite, commonplace

- stale, insipid, overused

BANAL

To work on excessively or to thrash soundly

- overwork

BELABOR

Tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; criticism

- caviling, nit-picking

CARPING

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

- connected, unified, cohesive

COHERENT

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

- harden, solidify, coagulate

CONGEAL

To imitate with the intent to surpass the model

- copy, mimic, match

EMULATE

A formal expression of praise; a lavish tribute

- panegyric, eulogy, commendation

ENCOMIUM

To avoid, shun, keep away from

- Abstain from, forgo, steer clear of

ESCHEW

Relevant, appropriate, fitting

- pertinent, related

GERMANE

So great or demanding as not to be satisfied

- unquenchable, voracious ravenous

INSATIABLE

Refusing to compromise; irreconcilable

- unyielding , obdurate, stubborn

INTRANSIGENT

Offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment

- malicious, spiteful, pejorative

INVIDIOUS mean

Generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions

- munificence, bountiful

LARGESSE

A survey made for military purposes; a preliminary inspection or examination

- to scout

RECONNAISSANCE

To establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete form to- confirm, verify,

authenticate, validate

SUBSTANTIATE

Habitually silent or quiet; inclined to talk very little

- uncommunicative; laconic

TACITURN

To stall or act evasively in order to gain time; to postpone a decision; to compromise

- procrastinate, hedge, dillydally

TEMPORIZE

Capable of being held or defended

- justifiable, defensible, maintainable

TENABLE

Acquisitive Emulate Insatiable Belabor

Substantiate Arrogate Encomium Largesse

Carping Germane Invidious Banal

Congeal Reconnaissance Tenable Temporize

Taciturn Coherent Intransigent Eschew