AP Lang vocab words - April 26

(adj) able to get and to retain ideas or information, concerned with acquiring wealth or property

• encomium

• congeal

• acquisitive

• eschew

arrogate

• (v) to claim without right

• (v) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

• (adj) offensive, hateful, tending to cause bitterness and resentment

• (v) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision

(adj) hackneyed, trite, commonplace: _

(v) to work on excessively, to thrash loudly

• intransigent

• taciturn

• carping

• belabor

carping

• (adj) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

• (v) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision

• (adj) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty or hairsplitting way (n) petty, nagging criticism

• (v) to change from liquid to solid, thicken, to make inflexible or rigid

(adj) holding or sticking together, making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful: _

(v) to change from liquid to solid, thicken, to make inflexible or rigid

• largesse

• ramify

• excoriation

• congeal

emulate

• (adj) able to get and to retain ideas or information, concerned with acquiring wealth or property

• (v) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

• (v) to establish by evidence, prove, to give concrete or substantial form to

• (adj) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

(n) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute: _

(v) to avoid, shun, keep away from

• belabor

• substantiate

• eschew

• invidious