Friday, September 9, 2016

Vocab List #3

Coherent: logical and consistent

Belabor: argue or elaborate

Eschew: deliberately avoid using

Acquisitive: interested in acquiring money or material things

Emulate: match or surpass

Banal: lacking in originality

Excoriation: to strip off or remove

Congeal:  
To change from a solid state to a fluid 

Carping: difficult to please

Substantiate: to provide evidence to support or prove the truth

Temporize: avoid to making a decision or committing oneself in order to gain time

Largesse: generosity on bestowing money or gifts upon others

Tenable: able to be maintained or defend by an attack

Insatiable: impossible to satisfy

Reconnaissance: military observation of region to locate an enemy

Germane: relevant to a subject under consideration

Ramify: form branches or offshoots

Intransigent: unwilling or refusing to change ones view to agree to something

Taciturn: saying little

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