H AM LIT. unit 1 Vocab

Acquisitive:

• (adj): able to retain ideas/information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property

• (v) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

• (adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty manner; (n.) petty, nagging, and criticism

Arrogate (v.) :

• to work on excessively

• relevant, appropriate, or fitting

• to claim or take without right

Banal (adj.):

• offensive, hateful; cause bitterness/resentment

• hackneyed, trite, commonplace

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

Belabor (v.):

• holding or sticking together; comprehensible, meaningful

• capable of being held or defended

• to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

Carping (adj.)

• tending to find fault; petty nagging

• habitually silent or quiet

• capable of being held/defended

coherent (adj.)

• to avoid, shun, keep away

• holding or sticking together; comprehensible and meaningful

• a survey made for military purposes; preliminary inspection or examination

congeal (v.)

• generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions

• a formal expression of praise

• To change from liquid to solid; to make inflexible or rigid

emulate (v.) :

• so great or demanding as not to be satisfied

• refusing to compromise

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

encomium (n.)

• hackneyed, trite, commonplace

• to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

• a formal expression of praise

eschew (v.)

• to avoid, shun, keep away from

• to claim or take without right

• so great or demanding; no satisfaction