Unit 1 Vocab

Acquisitive (Adj)

• Concerned with acquiring wealth; able to get and retain information 

• To take without the right to do so

• Stale; everyday

• To work excessively

1. Arrogate verb

• Concerned with acquiring wealth; able to get and retain information 

• Stale; everyday

• To work excessively

• To take without the right to do so

1. Banal adjective

• Concerned with acquiring wealth; able to get and retain information 

• A formal speech that praises

• Stale; everyday

• Relevant, appropriate

1. Belabor verb 

• Relevant, appropriate

• To work excessively

• A formal speech that praises

• To change from liquid to solid

1. Carping  adj/noun 

• Finding fault; nagging criticism

• Generosity

• Comprehensible; unified

• To take without the right to do so

1. Coherent adjective

• Able to be held or defended (not literally)

• Comprehensible; unified

• To imitate, copy, mimic

• Refusing to compromise

1. Congeal verb 

• To change from liquid to solid

• Offensive, hateful

• Relevant, appropriate

• Too great to be satisfied

1. Emulate verb 

• Relevant, appropriate

• To avoid, or stay away from

• Talking very little

• To imitate, copy, mimic

1. Encomium noun 

• A formal speech that praises

• Able to be held or defended (not literally)

• Refusing to compromise

• Relevant, appropriate

1. Eschew verb

• Relevant, appropriate

• To avoid, or stay away from

• To prove with evidence

• Finding fault; nagging criticism