Vocabulary Quiz

What does the adjective "acquisitive" mean?

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

• To claim or take power/authority without right

• Hackneyed, trite, commonplace; lacking originality

• To explain or go over something longer than necessary

What is the meaning of the verb "arrogate"?

• To imitate something achieved by someone else

• To claim or take power/authority without right

• To thicken from a liquid; to jell

• To avoid, shun, or keep away from something

Which word describes something that is hackneyed, trite, or lacking originality?

• Coherent

• Banal

• Encomium

• Carping

What does the verb "belabor" mean?

• To explain or go over something longer than necessary

• To avoid, shun, or keep away from something

• To imitate something achieved by someone else

• To thicken from a liquid; to jell

What is the meaning of the adjective "carping"?

• Logical, sound, reasonable

• Petty and nagging criticism usually over little things

• A formal expression of praise

• Able to get and retain ideas or information

What does "coherent" mean?

• To thicken from a liquid; to jell

• Logical, sound, reasonable; united as or forming a whole

• To claim or take power/authority without right

• To avoid, shun, or keep away from something

What is the meaning of the verb "congeal"?

• To imitate something achieved by someone else

• To thicken from a liquid; to jell; to make inflexible or rigid

• To explain or go over something longer than necessary

• A formal expression of praise

What does the verb "emulate" mean?

• To avoid, shun, or keep away from something

• To claim or take power/authority without right

• To imitate something achieved by someone else with the intent of doing it as well as they have

• To thicken from a liquid; to jell

What is an "encomium"?

• A formal expression of praise; an elaborate tribute

• Petty and nagging criticism usually over little things

• Able to get and retain ideas or information

• To explain or go over something longer than necessary

What does the verb "eschew" mean?

• To thicken from a liquid; to jell

• To avoid, shun, or keep away from something that’s unwise or distasteful

• To claim or take power/authority without right

• To imitate something achieved by someone else