vocab unit 1

Question 0

Arrogate

Answer 0

(V.) to claim or take without right

Question 1

Acquisitive

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Banal

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(Adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace

Question 3

Belabor

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(V.) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

Question 4

Carping

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(Adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way
(N.) petty, nagging criticism

Question 5

Coherent

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

Question 6

Congeal

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

Question 7

Emulate

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

Question 8

Encomium

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(N.) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

Question 9

Eschew

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(V.) to shun, avoid, keep away from

Question 10

Germane

Answer 10

(Adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

Question 11

Insatiable

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(Adj.) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied

Question 12

Intransigent

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(Adj.) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

Question 13

Invidious

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Largesse

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(N.) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions

Question 15

Reconnaissance

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

Question 16

Substantiate

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(V.) to establish by evidence l, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to

Question 17

Taciturn

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

Question 18

Temporize

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

Question 19

Tenable

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(Adj.) capable of being held or defended

Question 20

Ad Hominem

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(N.) an argument based on the failings of an adversary rather than on the merits of the case; a logical fallacy that involves a personal attack.

Question 21

Allegory

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(N.) extending a metaphor so that objects, persons, and actions in a text are equated with meanings that lie outside the text.

Question 22

Alliteration

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(N.) the repetition of an initial consonant sound.

Question 23

Allusion

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(N.) a brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event–real or fictional.

Question 24

Ambiguity

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(N.) the presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage.

Question 25

Analogy

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(N.) reasoning or arguing from parallel cases.

Question 26

Anaphora

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(N.) the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.

Question 27

Antecedent

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(N.) the noun or noun phrase referred to by a pronoun.