Vocabulary Unit 1B (grade 12)

Acquisitive

• generosity in giving

• habitually silent or quiet

• able to get and retain ideas and information

• to work on excessively

Belabor

• so great or demanding as not to be satisfied

• tending to find fault

• to avoid, shun or keep away from

• to work on excessively

Carping

• tending to find fault, especially in a petty and nasty way

• to change from a liquid to a solid

• able to get and retain ideas or information

• offensive, hateful

Congeal

• so great or demanding as not to be satisfied

• tending to find fault, espcially in a petty, nasty way

• offensive, hateful

• to change from a liquid to a solid

Eschew

• generosity in giving

• to avoid, shun, keep away from

• capable of being held or defended

• habitually silent or quiet

Insatiable

• so great or demanding as not to be satisfied

• tending to find fault in a petty or nasty way

• able to get and retain ideas and information

• offensive, hateful

Invidious

• offensive, hateful

• able to get and retain ideas and information

• to work excessively

• to avoid, shun or keep away from

Largesse

• generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions

• offensive, hateful

• so great or demanding as not to be satisfied

• tending to find fault in a petty or nasty way

Tactiturn

• loud and obnxious

• habitually silent or quiet

• to change from a liquid to a solid

• to avoid, shun or keep away from

Tenable

• capable of being held or defended

• habitually silent or quiet

• changing from a solid to a liquid

• offensive, hateful