Vocabulary Workshop Level G Unit 1

to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

• Banal

• Belabor

• Carping

• Germane

Refusing to compromise; irreconcilable

• Intransigent

• Insatiable

• Congeal

• Belabor

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

• Carping

• Eschew

• Acquisitive

• Germane

Habitually silent or quiet

• Eschew

• Germane

• Taciturn

• Intransigent

To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

• Emulate

• Banal

• Belabor

• Eschew

Capable of being held or defended.

• Emulate

• Substantiate

• Largesse

• Tenable

To claim without taking rights

• Arrogate

• Banal

• Belabor

• Temporize

To change from liquid to solid; thicken, make inflexbile

• Encomium

• Congeal

• Germane

• Intransigent

Hackneyed; common place; trite

• Arrogate

• Banal

• Coherent

• Germane

Tending to find fault in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way

• Arrogate

• Carping

• Germane

• Taciturn