Friday, October 3, 2014

Vocabulary: Fall List 3

Coherent: Logically connected; consistent

Belabor: To explain, worry about, or work at (something) repeatedly or more than is necessary.

Eschew: To abstain or keep away from; shun; avoid

Acquisitive:Tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily

Emulate: To try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass

Banal: Devoid of freshness or originality; hackneyed; trite

Excoriation:The act of stripping off or removing skin.

Conceal: To change from a soft or fluid state to a rigid or solid state, as by cooling or freezing

Carping: Complaining loudly

Substantiate: To establish by proof or competent evidence

Temporize: To be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting

Largesse: The gift or gifts, as of money, so bestowed

Tenable: Capable of being occupied, possessed, held, or enjoyed, as under certain conditions

Insatiable: Incapable of being satisfied or appeased

Reconnaissance: The act of reconnoitering

Germane: Closely or significantly related; relevant; pertinent

Ramify: To divide or spread out into branches or branchlike parts

Intransigent: Refusing to agree or compromise

Taciturn: Inclined to silence

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