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Title: VWS Unit 1


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VWS Unit 1
  1. Acquisitive
  2. Arrogate
  3. Banal
  4. Belabor
  5. Carping
  6. Coherent
  7. Congeal
  8. Emulate
  9. Encomium
  10. Eschew
  1. Germane
  2. Insatiable
  3. Intransigent
  4. Invidious
  5. Largesse
  6. Reconnaissance
  7. Substantiate
  8. Taciturn
  9. Temporize
  10. Tenable

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

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Arrogate
  • V to claim or take without right

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Banal
  • Adj Hackneyed, trite, commonplace

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Belabor
  • V to work on excessively to thrash soundly

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

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

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

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

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Encomium
  • N a formal expression of praise, a lavish
    tribute

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Eschew
  • V To avoid, shun, keep away from

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Germane
  • Adj Relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

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

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Intransigent
  • Adj refusing to compromise, irreconcilable.

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

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Largesse
  • N Generosity in giving lavish or bountiful
    contributions.

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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.

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

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

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Tenable
  • Adj capable of being held or defended.
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