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Vocab Unit 1
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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.
Encomium:A formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute.
Eschew:To avoid, shun, to keep away from.
Germane:relevant, 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, to prove; to give concrete or substantial form to
Taciturn:Habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little
Temporize:to stall or act evasively to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise
Tenable:Capable of being held or defended.
Vocab Unit 1
Across:1. | offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment | 3. | Generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions | 6. | To avoid, shun, to keep away from. | 8. | Capable of being held or defended. | 10. | to claim or take without right | 12. | A formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute. |
| 14. | to change from liquid to solid; thicken; to make inflexible or rigid | 15. | Habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little | 17. | To establish by evidence, to prove; to give concrete or substantial form to | 19. | relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting | 20. | A survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination |
| | Down:2. | Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable | 4. | To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model. | 5. | to stall or act evasively to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise | 7. | so great or demanding as not to be satisfied | 9. | hackneyed, trite, commonplace. |
| 11. | able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property | 13. | tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; petty, nagging criticism | 16. | holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful | 18. | to work on excessively; to thrash soundly |
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Vocab Unit 1
Across:1. | offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment | 3. | Generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions | 6. | To avoid, shun, to keep away from. | 8. | Capable of being held or defended. | 10. | to claim or take without right | 12. | A formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute. |
| 14. | to change from liquid to solid; thicken; to make inflexible or rigid | 15. | Habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little | 17. | To establish by evidence, to prove; to give concrete or substantial form to | 19. | relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting | 20. | A survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination |
| | Down:2. | Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable | 4. | To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model. | 5. | to stall or act evasively to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise | 7. | so great or demanding as not to be satisfied | 9. | hackneyed, trite, commonplace. |
| 11. | able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property | 13. | tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; petty, nagging criticism | 16. | holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful | 18. | to work on excessively; to thrash soundly |
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