| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Acquisitive | able to get and obtain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property |
| Arrogate | to claim or take without right |
| Banal | hackneyed, trite, commonplace |
| Belabor | to work on excessively; to thrash soundly |
| Carping | (adj)- tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n)- petty, nagging criticism |
| Coherent | holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible; meaningful |
| Congeal | to change from liquid to sold, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid |
| Emulate | to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model |
| Encomium | a formal expression of praise; a lavish tribute |
| Eschew | to avoid, shun, keep away from |
| Excoriation | a strong denunciation; the act or state of stripping or wearing off the skin |
| Germane | relevant, appropriate, apropos |
| Insatiable | so great or demanding that it cannot be satisfied |
| Intransigent | refusing to compromise, irreconcilable |
| Invidious | offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness or resentment |
| Largesse | generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions |
| Ramify | to divide or spread out like branches; to separate into divisions |
| Reconnaissance | a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination |
| Substantiate | to establish by evidence; prove; to give concrete or substantial form to |
| Taciturn | habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little |
| Temporize | to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision, to compromise |
| Tenable | capable of being held or defended |
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