Vocabulary Unit 1

Question 1

Acquisitive (Adj)

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Arrogate (v)

Answer 2

to claim or take without right

Question 3

Banal (adj)

Answer 3

hackneyed, trite, commonplace

Question 4

Belabor (v)

Answer 4

to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

Question 5

Carping (adj or n)

Answer 5

(adj) tending to find fault, esp. in a nasty, petty, or hairsplitting way; (n) petty, nagging criticism

Question 6

Coherent (adj)

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Congeal (v)

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Emulate (v)

Answer 8

To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

Question 9

Encomium (n)

Answer 9

a formal expression of praise; a lavish tribute

Question 10

Eschew (v)

Answer 10

to avoid, shun, keep away from

Question 11

Germane (adj)

Answer 11

relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

Question 12

Insatiable (adj)

Answer 12

so great or demanding as to not be satisfied

Question 13

Intransigent (adj)

Answer 13

refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

Question 14

Invidious (adj)

Answer 14

offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment

Question 15

Largesse (n)

Answer 15

generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions

Question 16

Reconnaissance (n)

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Taciturn (adj)

Answer 17

habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little

Question 18

Temporize (v)

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Tenable (adj)

Answer 19

capable of being held or defeated

Question 20

Substantiate (V)

Answer 20

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