Vocabulary Practice Quiz 1

What does the word 'acquisitive' mean?

• Excessively interested in acquiring money or material things

• To claim without justification

• Common, ordinary

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

What is the definition of the word 'arrogate'?

• Excessively interested in acquiring money or material things

• To claim without justification

• Common, ordinary

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

What's the definition for banal?

• eschew

  to keep away from; to avoid; to shun

• lacking in originality; common or ordinary

• unique; extraordinary; exceptional.
• (adj.) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful

• encomium

  a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

What does the term 'belabor' mean?

• Excessively interested in acquiring money or material things

• To claim without justification

• Common, ordinary

• To work on excessively; to thrash soundly

What is the meaning of the word 'carping'?

• Excessively interested in acquiring money or material things

• To claim without justification

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

• To work on excessively; to thrash soundly

What does the word 'coherent' mean?

• Excessively interested in acquiring money or material things

• To claim without justification

• Holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful

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

What is the definition of the term 'congeal'?

• Excessively interested in acquiring money or material things

• To claim without justification

• Holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful

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

What does it mean to 'emulate' someone?

• Follow an example and imitate

• To keep away from; to avoid; to shun

• A formal expression of praise; a lavish tribute

• Relevant, appropriate, fitting

What is the definition of the word 'encomium'?

• Follow an example and imitate

• To keep away from; to avoid; to shun

• A formal expression of praise; a lavish tribute

• Relevant, appropriate, fitting

What does the term 'eschew' mean?

• Follow an example and imitate

• To keep away from; to avoid; to shun

• A formal expression of praise; a lavish tribute

• Relevant, appropriate, fitting