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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