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VWS Unit 1

VWS Unit 1. Acquisitive Arrogate Banal Belabor Carping Coherent Congeal Emulate Encomium Eschew. Germane Insatiable Intransigent Invidious Largesse Reconnaissance Substantiate Taciturn Temporize Tenable. Acquisitive.

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VWS Unit 1

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  1. VWS Unit 1 • Acquisitive • Arrogate • Banal • Belabor • Carping • Coherent • Congeal • Emulate • Encomium • Eschew • Germane • Insatiable • Intransigent • Invidious • Largesse • Reconnaissance • Substantiate • Taciturn • Temporize • Tenable

  2. Acquisitive • Adj: able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property

  3. Arrogate • V: to claim or take without right

  4. Banal • Adj: Hackneyed, trite, commonplace

  5. Belabor • V: to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

  6. Carping • Adj: tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way • N: petty, nagging criticism

  7. Coherent • Adj: Holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful.

  8. Congeal • V: To change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid.

  9. Emulate • V: To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model.

  10. Encomium • N: a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

  11. Eschew • V: To avoid, shun, keep away from

  12. Germane • Adj: Relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

  13. Insatiable • Adj: So great or demanding as not to be satisfied

  14. Intransigent • Adj: refusing to compromise, irreconcilable.

  15. Invidious • Adj: offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment.

  16. Largesse • N: Generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions.

  17. Reconnaissance • N: A survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination.

  18. Substantiate • V: To establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to.

  19. Taciturn • Adj: Habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little.

  20. Temporize • V: To stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise.

  21. Tenable • Adj: capable of being held or defended.

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