Level G Voc. Unit 1
Terms
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- acquisitive
- (adj) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property
- arrogate
- (v) to claim or take without right
- banal
- (adj) hackneyed, trite, commonplace
- belabor
- (v) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly
- carping
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(adj) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way;
(n) petty, nagging criticism - coherent
- (adj)holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful
- congeal
- (v) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid
- emulate
- (v) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model
- encomium
- (n) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
- eschew
- (v) to avoid, shun, keep away from
- germane
- (adj) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting
- insatiable
- (adj) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied
- intransigent
- (adj) refusing to compromise, irreconcilabe
- invidious
- (adj) offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment
- largesse
- (n) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions
- reconnaissance
- (n) a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination
- substantiate
- (v) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to
- taciturn
- (adj) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little
- temporize
- (v) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise
- tenable
- (adj) capable of being held or defended