Vocab Week 1

Question 0

To claim or take without right

Answer 0

Arrogate
S:expropriate, usurp
A: renounce abdicate, abandon

Question 1

Able to get and retain ideas or in formation; concerned with acquiring wealth or property

Answer 1

Acquisitive s:avaricious, retentive

A: altruistic, unretentive

Question 2

Hackneyed, trite, commonplace

Answer 2

Banal
S: stale, insipid, flat
A: fresh, novel

Question 3

To work on excessively; to thrash soundly

Answer 3

Belabor

S: pummel, overwork

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Carping
S: caviling
A: approving

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Coherent
S: consistent, cohesive
A: muddled, chaotic, disjointed

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Congeal
S: jell
A: melt

Question 7

To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

Answer 7

Emulate

S: copy, rival

Question 8

A formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

Answer 8

Encomium
S:panegyric, eulogy, commendation
A: condemnation, castigation, cristicism

Question 9

To avoid, keep away from, shun

Answer 9

Eschew
S: absTain from, forgo
A: embrace

Question 10

Relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

Answer 10

Germane
S: pertinent
A: irrelevant, extraneous

Question 11

So great or demanding as to not be satisfied

Answer 11

Insatiable

S: ravenous, voracious

Question 12

Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

Answer 12

Intransigent
S: uncompromising, obdurate
A: lukewarm, yielding, halfhearted

Question 13

Offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment

Answer 13

Invidious
S: malicious, spiteful, prejudicial, pejorative
A: complimentary flattering, ameliorative

Question 14

Generosity in giving, lavish or bountiful contributions

Answer 14

largesse
S: liberality, munificence, bounty
A: miserliness, niggardliness

Question 15

A survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination

Answer 15

Reconnaissance

S: scouting expedition

Question 16

To establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to

Answer 16

substantiate
S: verify
A: refute

Question 17

Habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little

Answer 17

taciturn
S: laconic
A: garrulous, loquacious, prolix,

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Temporize

Question 19

Capable of being held or defended

Answer 19

Tenable

S: maintainable