Vocab Level G Unit 1

Question 1

Able to get and retain ideas or information

Concerned with acquiring wealth or property

Answer 1

Acquisitive

Question 2

To claim or take without right

Answer 2

Arrogate

Question 3

Stale, insipid

Hackneyed, trite, common place

Answer 3

Banal

Question 4

To work excessively

Overwork

Answer 4

Belabor

Question 5

Tending to find fault especially in a petty nasty or hairsplitting way

Answer 5

Carping

Question 6

Holding or sticking together making a logical whole

comprehensible, meaningful

Answer 6

Coherent

Question 7

To change from liquid to solid

thicken

Answer 7

Congeal

Question 8

To imitate with intent of equaling or surpassing the model

Answer 8

Emulate

Question 9

A formal expression of praise
A lavish tribute
Eulogy

Answer 9

Encomium

Question 10

To avoid, shun, keep away from

Answer 10

Eschew

Question 11

Relevant, appropriate, fitting

Answer 11

Germane

Question 12

So grade or demanding as not to be satisfied

Answer 12

Insatiable

Question 13

Refusing to compromise

Unable to be moved

Answer 13

Intransigent

Question 14

Offensive, hateful,

tending to cause bitterness and resentment

Answer 14

Invidious

Question 15

A survey made for military purposes

Exploration

Answer 15

Reconnaissance

Question 16

To establish by evidence, prove

to give concrete or substantial form to

Answer 16

Substantiate

Question 17

Habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little

Answer 17

Taciturn

Question 18

To stall or at evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision

Answer 18

Temporize

Question 19

Capable of being held or defended

Answer 19

Tenable

Question 20

Generosity in giving, lavish or bountiful contributions

Answer 20

Largess