Vocabulary 1

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Acquisitive

Question 2

Claim or take without right

Answer 2

Arrogate

Question 2

Hackneyed, trite, commonplace

Answer 2

Banal

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Carping

Question 4

to work excessively; to thrash around

Answer 4

belabor

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Coherent

Question 6

to change from liquid from solid, thicken: to make inflexible or rigid.

Answer 6

Congeal

Question 7

to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model.

Answer 7

Emulate

Question 8

a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

Answer 8

Encomium

Question 9

To avoid, shun, keep away from

Answer 9

Eschew

Question 10

relevant, appropriate,apropos, fitting

Answer 10

Germane

Question 11

so great or demanding and not to be satisfied

Answer 11

insatiable

Question 12

refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

Answer 12

intransigent

Question 13

offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment

Answer 13

invidious

Question 14

generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions

Answer 14

largesse

Question 15

a survey made for military purposes; Andy kind of preliminary inspection or examination.

Answer 15

reconnaissance

Question 16

to establish by evidence, prove

Answer 16

substantiate

Question 17

habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little

Answer 17

taciturn

Question 18

to stall or act evasively in order to gain time.

Answer 18

temporize

Question 19

capable of being held or defended

Answer 19

tenable