Vocab 1- English 12

Front

Able to get and retain ideas or information, concerned with acquiring wealth or property

Back

Acquisitive

Front

Claim or take without right

Back

Arrogate

Front

Tending to find fault in a petty or hairsplitting way.

Back

Carping

Front

Holding or sticking together, making a logical whole, comprehensible.

Back

Coherent

Front

Formal praise or tribute

Back

Encomium

Front

Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

Back

Intransigent

Front

Hackneyed, trite, commonplace

Back

Banal

Front

To work excessively, to thrash soundly

Back

Belabor

Front

Change from liquid to solid, thicken, make rigid

Back

Congeal

Front

Imitate to equal or surpass the model

Back

Emulate