Vocabulary builder 1

Question 1

acquisitive

(a quiz’ a tiv)

Answer 1

(adj.) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with aquiring wealth or property

Question 2

arrogate

(a’ ra gate)

Answer 2

(v.) to claim or take without right

Question 3

banal

(be nal’)

Answer 3

(adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace

Question 4

belabor

(bi lay’ bur)

Answer 4

(v) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

Question 5

carping

(car’ ping)

Answer 5

(adj) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n) petty, nagging, cticism

Question 6

coherent

(co hair’ ent)

Answer 6

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

Question 7

congeal

(kun jeel’)

Answer 7

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

Question 8

emulate

(em’ you late)

Answer 8

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

Question 9

encomium

(en co’ me um)

Answer 9

(n) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

Question 10

eschew

(es choo’)

Answer 10

(v) to avoid, shun, keep away from

Question 11

germane

(jur mane’)

Answer 11

(adj) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

Question 12

insatiable

(in say’ shu bull)

Answer 12

(adj) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied

Question 13

intransigent

(in tran’ su gent)

Answer 13

(adj) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

Question 14

invidious

(in vid’ ee us)

Answer 14

(adj) offensice, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment

Question 15

largesse

(lar jes’)

Answer 15

(n) generosity in giving lavish or bountiful contributions

Question 16

reconnaissance

(ri caun’ u suns)

Answer 16

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

Question 17

substantiate

(sub stan’ she ate)

Answer 17

(v) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to

Question 18

taciturn

(tas’ uh turn)

Answer 18

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

Question 19

temporize

(tem’ puh rize)

Answer 19

(v) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a cofrontation, or postpone decision; to compromise

Question 20

tenable

(ten’ uh bull)

Answer 20

(adj) capable of being held or defended