Sadlier Oxford Level G units 1-3
Terms
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- 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
- Tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; 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
- eschew
- to avoid, shun, keep away from
- germane
- relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting
- insatiable
- so great or demanding as to not 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
- encomium
- a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
- substantiate
- to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to
- taciturn
- habitually silent or quiet
- 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