English 11

2. Able to get and retain ideas
and information; concerned
with acquiring wealth or
property
- greedy, avaricious, retentive
AQUISITIVE

3. To claim or take without right
- usurp, commandeer,
expropriate
ARROGATE

4. Hackneyed, trite,
commonplace
- stale, insipid, overused
BANAL

5. To work on excessively or
to thrash soundly
- overwork
BELABOR

6. Tending to find fault,
especially in a petty, nasty,
or hairsplitting way;
criticism
- caviling, nit-picking
CARPING

7. Holding or sticking
together; making a logical
whole; comprehensive,
meaningful
- connected, unified,
cohesive
COHERENT

8. To change from a liquid to
a solid, thicken; to make
rigid or inflexible
- harden, solidify, coagulate
CONGEAL

9. To imitate with the intent to
surpass the model
- copy, mimic, match
EMULATE

10. A formal expression of
praise; a lavish tribute
- panegyric, eulogy,
commendation
ENCOMIUM

11. To avoid, shun, keep away
from
- Abstain from, forgo, steer
clear of
ESCHEW

12. Relevant, appropriate,
fitting
- pertinent, related
GERMANE

13. So great or demanding as
not to be satisfied
- unquenchable, voracious
ravenous
INSATIABLE

14. Refusing to compromise;
irreconcilable
- unyielding , obdurate,
stubborn
INTRANSIGENT

15. Offensive, hateful; tending
to cause bitterness and
resentment
- malicious, spiteful,
pejorative
INVIDIOUS

16. Generosity in giving; lavish
or bountiful contributions
- munificence, bountiful
LARGESSE

17. A survey made for military
purposes; a preliminary
inspection or examination
- to scout
RECONNAISSANCE

18. To establish by evidence,
prove; to give concrete
form to
- confirm, verify,
authenticate, validate
SUBSTANTIATE

19. Habitually silent or quiet;
inclined to talk very little
- uncommunicative; laconic
TACITURN

20. To stall or act evasively in
order to gain time; to
postpone a decision; to
compromise
- procrastinate, hedge,
dillydally
TEMPORIZE

21. Capable of being held or
defended
- justifiable, defensible,
maintainable
TENABLE

22. Acquisitive Emulate Insatiable Belabor
Substantiate Arrogate Encomium Largesse
Carping Germane Invidious Banal
Congeal Reconnaissance Tenable Temporize
Taciturn Coherent Intransigent Eschew