Setzer - AP Comp. - Unit 1
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| (adj.) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property | ||
| (v.) to claim or take without right | ||
| (adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace | ||
| (v.) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly | ||
| (adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n.) petty, nagging criticism | ||
| (adj.) holding on or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful | ||
| (v.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid | ||
| (v.) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model | ||
| (n.) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute | ||
| (v.) to avoid, shun, keep away from | ||
| (n.) a strong denunciation; the act or state of stripping or wearing off the skin | ||
| (adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting | ||
| (adj.) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied | ||
| (adj.) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable | ||
| (adj.) offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment | ||
| (n.) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions | ||
| (v.) to divide and spread out like branches; to separate into divisions | ||
| (n.) a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination | ||
| (v.) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to | ||
| (adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little | ||
| (v.) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise | ||
| (adj.) capable of being held or defended |