Unit 1

Question 1

(adj) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property

Answer 1

acquisitive

Question 2

(v) to claim or take without right

Answer 2

arrogate

Question 3

(adj) hackneyed, trite, commonplace

Answer 3

banal

Question 4

(v) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

Answer 4

belabor

Question 5

(adj) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n) petty, nagging criticism

Answer 5

carping

Question 6

(adj) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful

Answer 6

coherent

Question 7

(v) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid

Answer 7

congeal

Question 8

(v) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

Answer 8

emulate

Question 9

(n) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

Answer 9

encomium

Question 10

(v) to avoid, shun, keep away from

Answer 10

eschew

Question 11

(adj) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

Answer 11

germane

Question 12

(adj) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied

Answer 12

insatiable

Question 13

(adj) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

Answer 13

intransigent

Question 14

(adj) offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment

Answer 14

invidious

Question 15

(n) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions

Answer 15

largesse

Question 16

(n) a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination

Answer 16

reconnaissance

Question 17

(v) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to

Answer 17

substantiate

Question 18

(adj) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little

Answer 18

taciturn

Question 19

(v) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise

Answer 19

temporize

Question 20

(adj) capable of being held or defended

Answer 20

tenable