Vocabulary Workshop: Unit 1: Definitions

223128501	acquisitive	able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property (adj.)
223128503	arrogate	to claim or take without right (v.)
223128505	banal	hackneyed, trite, commonplace (adj.)
223128507	belabor	to work on excessively; to thrash soundly (v.)
223128508	carping	(adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way;(N.) petty nagging criticism
223128510	coherent	holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful (adj.)
223128512	congeal	to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid (v.)
223128514	emulate	to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model (v.)
223128516	encomium	a formal expression of praise; lavish tribute (n.)
223128518	eschew	to avoid, shun, keep away from (v.)
223128520	germane	relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting (adj.)
223128522	insatiable	so great or demanding as not to be satisfied (adj.)
223128523	intransigent	refusing to compromising, irreconcilable (adj.)
223128525	invidious	offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment (adj.)
223128527	largesse	generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions (n.)
223128529	reconnaissance	a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination (n.)
223128531	substantiate	to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to (v.)
223128533	taciturn	habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little (adj.)
223128534	temporize	to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise (v.)
223128536	tenable	capable of being held or defended (adj.)