Vocab Unit 1

Question 0

to claim or take without right

Answer 0

arrogate

syn: commandeer, expropriate
ant: renounce, abandon

Question 1

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

Answer 1

acquisitive

syn: greedy, avaricious
ant: altruistic

Question 2

hackneyed, trite, commonplace

Answer 2

banal

syn: stale, insipid
ant: fresh, original

Question 3

to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

Answer 3

belador

syn: overwork

Question 4

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

Answer 4

carping

syn: nit-picking, caviling
ant: approving, uncritical

Question 5

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

Answer 5

coherent

syn: connected, cohesive
ant: muddled, chaotic, disjointed

Question 6

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

Answer 6

congeal

syn: jell, solidify
ant: liquefy

Question 7

to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

Answer 7

emulate

syn: copy, mimic

Question 8

a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

Answer 8

encomium

syn: panegyric, eulogy
ant: castigation, criticism

Question 9

to avoid, shun, keep away from

Answer 9

eschew

syn: forgo, steer clear of

Question 10

relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

Answer 10

germane

syn: pertinent
ant: irrelevant, inappropriate