Encomium: Formal
expression of high praise.
Coherent: Logically connected
I have a COHERENT relationship with my friend.
Belabor: To work at something repeatedly or more than
is necessary
When I don’t feel that good about the essays I write I
BELABOR on it.
Eschew: To abstain or keep away from.
I eschew my homework from my little sister.
Acquisitive: Eager to get wealth, possessions
Emulate: To try to
equal or excel
I try to emulate her good grade in class.
Arrogate: Assume or appropriate to oneself without
right.
Banal: Devoid of
freshness or originality
Many people are BANAL because they want to fit in.
Excoriation: To strip
off or remove the skin from your body.
Congeal: To change
from a soft or fluid state to a rigid or solid state, as by cooling or freezing
I CONGEAL water into
ice cubes using the freezer.
Carping: Characterized
by fussy or petulant fault finding
Substantiate: To
establish by proof or competent evidence
In science you SUBSTANTIATE a hypothesis.
Temporize: To be indecisive or evasive to gain time or
delay acting.
When my parents don’t want to let me go somewhere they
TEMPORIZE so that it can get late and I won’t be able to go.
Largesse: Generous bestowal of gifts.
I like to have LARGESSE for my family every once in a while.
Tenable: Capable of
being occupied, possessed, held, or enjoyed, as under certain conditions
Insatiable: Incapable
of being satisfied or appeased
Reconnaissance: An examination
or survey of the general geological characteristics of a region.
germane: Closely or
significantly related
ramify: To divide or
spread out into branches or branchlike parts
intransigent: Refusing
to agree or compromise
taciturn: Inclined to
silence
invidious: Resentment,
or envy
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