Vocabulary
Unit one
1. Acquisitive - able to get or retain ideas
2. Arrogate - to take without right
3. Banal - hackneyed, boring, commonplace
4. Belabor - to work on excessively
5. Carping - tending to find fault
6. Coherent - holding or sticking together
7. Congeal - to change from liquid to solid
8. Emulate - to imitate with the intent of equaling
9. Encomium - a formal expression or praise
10. Eschew - to avoid, shun
11. Germane - relevant, appropriate
12. Insatiable - demanding as not to be satisfied
13. Intransigent - refusing to compromise
14. Invidious - offensive, hateful
15. Largesse - generosity in giving
16. Reconnaissance – a survey made for military purpose
17. Substantiate – to establish by evidence
18. Taciturn - habitually silent or quiet
19. Temporize - to stall to gain time
20. Tenable - capable of being held or defended
Unit two:
1. Accost - to confront in a challenging way
2. Animadversion- a comment indicating strong criticism
3. Avid - desirous to the point of greed
4. Brackish - salty taste
5. Celerity - rapid movement or action
6. Devious - shifty or underhanded
7. Gambit - opening move that involves risk
8. Halcyon - calm and peaceful
9. Histrionic - artificial, melodramatic
10. Incendiary - deliberately causing fires
11. Maelstrom - large whirlpool of violence
12. Myopic - lacking broad, realistic view
13. Overt - open not hidden
14. Pejorative - tending to make worse
15. Propriety - state of being proper
16. Sacrilege - disrespect to something sacred
17. Summarily - without delay or formality
18. Suppliant - asking humbly
19. Talisman - an object used as a charm
20. Undulate - to move in waves
Unit three:
1. Cavort - to romp and make merry
2. Credence - belief, mental acceptance
3. Decry - to condemn, disapprove
4. Dissemble – to disguise or conceal
5. Distraught – agitated as a result of emotion
6. Eulogy - statement of praise
7. Evince - to display clearly
8. Exhume - to remove from a grave
9. Feckless - lacking spirit and strength
10. Murky - dark and gloomy
11. Nefarious – wicked and depraved
12. Piquant – stimulating, spicy
13. Primordial - created at the beginning
14. Propinquity -nearness in place or time
15. Substantive - having a solid basis
16. Unwonted - not usual or expected
17. Utopian - an ideal world
18. Verbiage - language that is too wordy
19. Verdant - green on color
20. viscous - having a gelatinous quality
Unit one
1. Acquisitive - able to get or retain ideas
2. Arrogate - to take without right
3. Banal - hackneyed, boring, commonplace
4. Belabor - to work on excessively
5. Carping - tending to find fault
6. Coherent - holding or sticking together
7. Congeal - to change from liquid to solid
8. Emulate - to imitate with the intent of equaling
9. Encomium - a formal expression or praise
10. Eschew - to avoid, shun
11. Germane - relevant, appropriate
12. Insatiable - demanding as not to be satisfied
13. Intransigent - refusing to compromise
14. Invidious - offensive, hateful
15. Largesse - generosity in giving
16. Reconnaissance – a survey made for military purpose
17. Substantiate – to establish by evidence
18. Taciturn - habitually silent or quiet
19. Temporize - to stall to gain time
20. Tenable - capable of being held or defended
Unit two:
1. Accost - to confront in a challenging way
2. Animadversion- a comment indicating strong criticism
3. Avid - desirous to the point of greed
4. Brackish - salty taste
5. Celerity - rapid movement or action
6. Devious - shifty or underhanded
7. Gambit - opening move that involves risk
8. Halcyon - calm and peaceful
9. Histrionic - artificial, melodramatic
10. Incendiary - deliberately causing fires
11. Maelstrom - large whirlpool of violence
12. Myopic - lacking broad, realistic view
13. Overt - open not hidden
14. Pejorative - tending to make worse
15. Propriety - state of being proper
16. Sacrilege - disrespect to something sacred
17. Summarily - without delay or formality
18. Suppliant - asking humbly
19. Talisman - an object used as a charm
20. Undulate - to move in waves
Unit three:
1. Cavort - to romp and make merry
2. Credence - belief, mental acceptance
3. Decry - to condemn, disapprove
4. Dissemble – to disguise or conceal
5. Distraught – agitated as a result of emotion
6. Eulogy - statement of praise
7. Evince - to display clearly
8. Exhume - to remove from a grave
9. Feckless - lacking spirit and strength
10. Murky - dark and gloomy
11. Nefarious – wicked and depraved
12. Piquant – stimulating, spicy
13. Primordial - created at the beginning
14. Propinquity -nearness in place or time
15. Substantive - having a solid basis
16. Unwonted - not usual or expected
17. Utopian - an ideal world
18. Verbiage - language that is too wordy
19. Verdant - green on color
20. viscous - having a gelatinous quality