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Vocabulary Review

Vocabulary Review. Units 1-3. Unit 1. ac quis itive. Adj—able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property Synonyms: greedy, grasping, avaricious, retentive Antonyms: altruistic, unretentive. a rrogate. Verb—to claim or take without right

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Vocabulary Review

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  1. Vocabulary Review Units 1-3

  2. Unit 1

  3. acquisitive • Adj—able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property • Synonyms: greedy, grasping, avaricious, retentive • Antonyms: altruistic, unretentive

  4. arrogate • Verb—to claim or take without right • Synonyms: expropriate, usurp, commandeer • Antonyms: relinquish, renounce, abdicate, abandon

  5. banal • Adj—hackneyed, trite, commonplace • Synonyms: stale, insipid • Antonyms: fresh, novel, original, new

  6. belabor • Verb—to work on excessively; to thrash soundly • Synonyms: overwork

  7. carping • Adj—tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way • Noun—petty, nagging, criticism • Synonyms: nit-picking, caviling • Antonyms: approving, critical

  8. Coherent • Adj—holding or sticking together, making a logical whole, comprehensible, meaningful • Synonyms: connected, unified, consistent, cohesive • Antonyms: muddled, chaotic, disjointed

  9. congeal • Verb—to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid • Synonyms: harden, jell, coagulate, solidify • Antonyms: melt, liquefy

  10. emulate • Verb—to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model • Synonyms: copy, mimic, rival, match, measure up to

  11. encomium • Noun—formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute • Synonyms: panegyric, eulogy, commendation • Antonyms: condemnation, castigation, criticism

  12. eschew • Verb—to avoid, shun, keep away from • Synonyms: abstain from, steer clear of, forgo • Antonyms: embrace, adopt

  13. germane • Adj—relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting • Synonym: pertinent • Antonym: irrelevant, extraneous, inappropriate

  14. insatiable • Adj—so great or demanding as not to be satisfied • Synonyms: unquenchable, ravenous, voracious

  15. intransigent • Adj—refusing to compromise, irreconcilable • Synonyms: uncompromising, unyielding, obdurate • Antonyms: lukewarm, halfhearted, yielding

  16. invidious • Adj—offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment • Synonyms: malicious, spiteful, prejudicial, pejorative • Antonyms: complimentary, flattering, ameliorative

  17. largesse • Noun—generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions • Synonyms: liberality, munificence, bounty • Antonyms: stinginess, miserliness, niggardliness

  18. reconnaissance • Noun—a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination • Synonym: scouting expedition

  19. substantiate • Verb—to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to • Synonyms: verify, confirm, validate, authenticate • Antonyms: refute, disprove, invalidate

  20. taciturn • Adj—habitually silent or quiet; inclined to talk very little • Synonyms: tight-lipped, uncommunicative, laconic • Antonyms: garrulous, loquacious, prolix, verbose

  21. temporize • Verb—to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise • Synonyms: hedge, dillydally, procrastinate

  22. tenable • Adj—capable of being held or defended • Synonyms: defensible, justifiable, maintainable • Antonyms: indefensible, unjustifiable

  23. Unit 2

  24. accost • Verb—to approach and speak to first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way • Synonyms: buttonhole, approach, confront • Antonyms: evade, avoid, shun

  25. animadversion • Noun—a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval • Synonyms: rebuke, reproof • Antonyms: praise, compliment

  26. avid • Adj—desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager • Synonyms: keen, enthusiastic, grasping • Antonyms: reluctant, indifferent, unenthusiastic

  27. brackish • Adj—having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink • Synonyms: briny, saline • Antonyms: fresh, clear, sweet

  28. celerity • Noun—swiftness, rapidity of motion or action • Synonyms: promptness, alacrity, speed • Antonyms: slowness, sluggishness, dilatoriness

  29. devious • Adj—straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way • Synonyms: roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful • Antonyms: direct, straightforward, open, aboveboard

  30. gambit • Noun—in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type • Synonyms: ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver

  31. halcyon • Noun—legendary bird identified with the kingfisher • Adj—of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; hapy, golden; prosperous, affluent • Synonyms: tranquil, serene, placid, palmy • Antonyms: turbulent, chaotic, tumultuous

  32. histrionic • Adj—pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic • Synonyms: affected, stagy • Antonyms: low-keyed, muted, untheatrical, subdued

  33. incendiary • Adj—deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion • Noun—one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist; one who causes strife • Synonyms: inflammatory, provocative, firebrand • Antonyms: soothing, quieting, peacemaker

  34. maelstrom • Noun—a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction • Synonyms: vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult

  35. myopic • Adj—nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernement • Synonym: shortsighted • Antonym: farsighted

  36. overt • Adj—open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way tht is easily recognized • Synonyms: clear, obvious, manifest, patent • Antonyms: secret, clandestine, covert, concealed

  37. pejorative • Adj—tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or disparagement; derogatory, deprecatory, belittling • Antonyms: complimentary, ameliorative

  38. propriety • Noun—the state of being proper, appropriateness • Pl—standards of what is proper or socially acceptable • Synonyms: fitness, correctness, decorum • Antonyms: unseemliness, inappropriateness

  39. sacrilege • Noun—improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred • Synonyms: desecration, profanation, defilement

  40. summarily • Adv-without delay or formality, briefly, concisely • Synonyms: promptly, peremptorily, abruptly

  41. suppliant • adj—asking humbly and earnestly • Noun—one who makes a request humbly and earnestly, a petitioner, a suitor

  42. talisman • Noun-an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish

  43. undulate • Verb-to move in waves or with a wavelike motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form • Synomyms: ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall

  44. Unit 3

  45. articulate • Verb-to pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; to connect by a joint or joints • Adj-expressed clearly and forcefully; able to employ language clearly and forcefully; jointed • Synonyms: pronounce, elucidate, eloquent • Antonyms: mumble, slur, tongue-tied, halting

  46. cavort • Verb-to romp or prance around exuberantly; to make merry • Synonyms: gambol

  47. credence • Noun-belief, mental acceptance • Synonyms: credit, trust, confidence • Antonyms: disbelief, skepticism, incredulity

  48. decry • Verb-to condemn, express strong disapproval; to officially depreciate • Synonyms: denounce, censure, devalue • Antonyms: tout, commend, extol, laud, praise

  49. dissemble • Verb-to disguise or conceal; deliberately give a false impression • Synonyms: dissimulate, mask, feign

  50. distraught • Adj-very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict • Synonyms: frantic, distracted • Antonyms: calm, composed, collected

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