1. Encomium: Glowing and warmly enthusiastic praise/ Bruce
Lee was encomiumed for the way he thought and the way he fought.
2. Coherent: Having clarity or intelligibility/ He
proposed the most coherent plan to improve the schools.
3. Belabor: To attack verbally, to explain or insist on
excessively/ Her habit of belaboring the obvious makes her a very boring
speaker.
4. Eschew: To avoid habitually especially on moral or
practical grounds/ They now eschew the violence of their past.
5. Acquisitive:
Strongly desirous of acquiring and possessing/ Acquisitive developers
are trying to tear down the historic home and build a shopping mall.
6. Emulate: To strive
to equal or excel/ She grew up emulating her sports heros.
7. Arrogate: To
claim or seize without justification/ They’ve arrogated to themselves
the power to change the rules arbitrarily.
8. Banal: Lacking
originality/ He made some banal remarks about the weather.
9. Excoriation:
To wear off the skin of/ He was excoriated as a racist.
10. Congeal: To
change from a fluid to a solid state by or as if by cold/ The gravy began to congeal
in the pan.
11. Carping:
Marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism/ I was carped
by many people.
12. Substantiate:
To establish by proof or competent evidence/ Mr. MacGregor couldn’t substantiate
that it was Peter, and not some other rabbit.
13. Temporize: To
act to suit the time or occasion: yield to current or dominant opinion/
Pressured by voters on both sides of the issue, the congressmen temporized.
14. Largesse:
Liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior/ He relied on the largesse
of friends after he lost his job.
15. Tenable:
Capable of being held, maintained, or defended/ The soldiers’ encampment on the
open plain was not tenable, so they retreated to higher ground.
16. Insatiable:
Incapable of being satisfied/ Her desire for knowledge was insatiable.
17. Reconnaissance:
A preliminary survey to gain information; especially: an exploratory military
survey of enemy territory/ There are two helicopters available for reconnaissance.
18. Germane:
Being at once relevant and appropriate/ My personal opinion isn’t germane
to our discussion of the facts of the case.
19. Ramify: To
split up into branches or constituent parts/ The rise of cable television ramified
the audience.
20. Intransigent:
Characterized by refusal to compromise or to abandon an extreme position or
attitude/ He has remained intransigent in his opposition to the
proposal.
21. Taciturn: Temperamentally
disinclined to talk/ A somewhat taciturn young man.
22. Invidious:
Tending to cause discontent, animosity, or envy/ The boss made invidious
distinctions between employees.
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