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Vocab
Unit 1
20
English
12th Grade
02/04/2009

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Acquisitive
Definition
able to get, retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or poverty.
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Arrogate
Definition
To clam or take without right.
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Banal
Definition
hackneyed,trite,commonplace.
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Carping
Definition
tending to find fault, especially; to trash soundly.
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Coherent
Definition
holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful.
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Congeal
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to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make flexible or rigid.
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Emulate
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to imitate with the intent of equaling or embarrassing the model.
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Encomium
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A formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute.
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Eschew
Definition
To avoid, shun, keep away from.
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Germane
Definition
relevant, appropriate, a propos, fitting.
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Insatiable
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so great or demanding as not to be satisfied
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Intransgient
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refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
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Invidious
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offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment.
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Largesse
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generosity in giving, lavish or bountiful contribution.
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Reconnaissance
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a survey made for military purposes, any kind of preliminary inspecting or examination.
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Substantiate
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to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete as substantial form to
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Taciturn
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habitually silken or quiet, inclined to talk very little.
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Temporize
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a stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise.
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Tenable
Definition
capable or being held of defended
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Belabor
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to work on excessively; to trash soundly
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