Sadlier Vocabulary Level G- Unit 1

Acquisitive

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

Arrogate

(v) to claim or take without right

Banal

(adj) commonplace

Belabor

(v) to work on excessively

Carping

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

Coherent

(adj) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible

Congeal

(v) to thicken; change from liquid to solid

Emulate

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

Germane

(adj) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

Insatiable

(adj) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied

Intransigent

(adj) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

Invidious

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

Largesse

(n) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions

Reconnaissance

(n) preliminary inspection or examination

Substantiate

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

Taciturn

(adj) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little

Encomium

n. Formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

Eschew

v. To avoid or shun

Temporize

v. To stall or act evasively in order to gain time

Tenable

adj. Capable of being held or defended