Vocab words that will be on the quiz on Thursday (10/27/11)
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| 236990139 | Acquisitive | able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property Synonyms: greedy, grasping, avaricious, retentive Antonyms: altruistic, unretentive | |
| 236990140 | Arrogate | to claim or take without right Synonyms: expropriate, usurp, commandeer Antonyms: relinquish, renounce, abdicate, abandon | |
| 236990141 | Banal | hackneyed, trite, commonplace Synonyms: stale, insipid Antonyms: fresh, novel, original, new | |
| 236990142 | Carping | tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; petty, nagging criticism Synonyms: nit-picking, caviling Antonyms: approving, uncritical | |
| 236990143 | Belabor | to work on excessively; to thrash soundly Synonyms: overwork | |
| 236990144 | Coherent | holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful Synonyms: connected, unified, consistent, cohesive Antonyms: muddled, chaotic, disjointed | |
| 236990145 | Congeal | to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid Synonyms: harden, jell, coagulate, solidify Antonyms: melt, liquefy | |
| 236990146 | Emulate | to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model Synonyms: copy, mimic, rival, match, measure up to | |
| 236990147 | Encomium | a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute Synonyms: panegyric, eulogy, commendation Antonyms: condemnation, castigation, criticism | |
| 236990148 | Eschew | to avoid, shun, keep away from Synonyms: abstain from, steer clear of, forgo Antonyms: embrace, adopt | |
| 236990149 | Germane | relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting Synonyms: pertinent Antonyms: irrelevant, extraneous, inappropriate | |
| 236990150 | Insatiable | so great or demanding as not to be satisfied Synonyms: unquenchable, ravenous, voracious | |
| 236990151 | Intransigent | refusing to compromise, irreconcilable Synonyms: uncompromising, unyielding, obdurate Antonyms: lukewarm, halfhearted, yielding | |
| 236990152 | Invidious | offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment Synonyms: malicious, spiteful, prejudicial, pejorative Antonyms: complimentary, flattering, ameliorative | |
| 236990153 | Largesse | generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions Synonyms: liberality, munificence, bounty Antonyms: stinginess, miserliness, niggardliness | |
| 236990154 | Reconnaissance | a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination Synonyms: scouting expedition | |
| 236990155 | Substantiate | to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to Synonyms: verify, confirm, validate, authenticate Antonyms: refute, disprove, invalidate | |
| 236990156 | Taciturn | habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little Synonyms: tight-lipped, uncommunicative, laconic Antonyms: garrulous, loquacious, prolix, verbose | |
| 236990157 | Temporize | to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise Synonyms: hedge, dillydally, procrastinate | |
| 236990158 | Tenable | capable of being held or defended Synonyms: defensible, justifiable, maintainable Antonyms: indefensible, unjustifiable | |
| 236990159 | Accost | to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way Synonyms: buttonhole, approach, confront Antonyms: evade, avoid, shun | |
| 236990160 | Animadversion | a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval Synonyms: rebuke, reproof Antonyms: praise, compliment | |
| 236990161 | Avid | desirous of something to point of greed; intensely eager Synonyms: keen, enthusiastic, grasping Antonyms: reluctant, indifferent, unenthusiastic | |
| 236990162 | Brackish | having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink Synonyms: briny, saline Antonyms: fresh, clear, sweet | |
| 236990163 | Celerity | swiftness, rapidity of motion or action Synonyms: promptness, alacrity, speed Antonyms: slowness, sluggishness, dilatoriness | |
| 236990164 | Devious | straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way Synonyms: roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful Antonyms: direct, straightforward, open, aboveboard | |
| 236990165 | Gambit | in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening movie of this type Synonyms: ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver | |
| 236990166 | Halcyon | a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent Synonyms: tranquil, serene, placid, palmy Antonyms: turbulent, chaotic, tumultuous | |
| 236990167 | Histrionic | pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic Synonyms: affected, stagy Antonyms: low-keyed, muted, untheatrical, subdued | |
| 236990168 | Incendiary | deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strifle or rebellion; one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife Synonyms: inflammatory, provocative, firebrand Antonyms: soothing, quieting, peacemaker | |
| 236990169 | Maelstrom | a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction Synonyms: vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult | |
| 236990170 | Myopic | nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment Synonyms: shortsighted Antonyms: farsighted | |
| 236990171 | Overt | open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized Synonyms: clear, obvious, manifest, patent Antonyms: secret, clandestine, covert, concealed | |
| 236990172 | Pejorative | tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling Antonyms: complimentary, ameliorative | |
| 236990173 | Propriety | the state of being proper, appropriateness; standards of what is proper or socially acceptable Synonyms: fitness, correctness, decorum Antonyms: unseemliness, inappropriateness | |
| 236990174 | Sacrilege | improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred Synonyms: desecration, profanation, defilement | |
| 236990175 | Summarily | without delay or formality; briefly, concisely Synonyms: promptly, peremptorily, abruptly | |
| 236990176 | Suppliant | asking humbly and earnestly; one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, suitor | |
| 236990177 | Talisman | an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish | |
| 236990178 | Undulate | to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form Synonyms: ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall |
