Vocabulary: Fall List #3

1. aquisitive: seeking to acquire.
ex. People are acquisitve for the latest technology.
2. banal: dull or overused.
ex. That style is banal.
3. arrogate: to take away without right.
ex. Thieves arrogate all the time.
4. substantiate: to confirm truth with proof.
ex. Evidence could substantiate a crime.
5. temporize: to comply with the time or occasion.
ex. Dressing up for Halloween temporizes with the occasion.
6. carping: to criticize.
ex. Singers get carped in American Idol.
7. congeal: to change something into a solid state by freezing.
ex. You can congeal water into ice.
8. eschew: to keep away from; shun.
ex. I try to eschew soda from my life.
9. belabor: to beat up.
ex. People can get really belabored in football.
10. emulate: to imitate.
ex. There is a lot of celebrity emulators in Hollywood.
11. coherent: logically connected.
ex. The school and district are coherent.
12. intransigent: refusing to agree.
ex. There are a lot of intransigent people in politics.
13. taciturn: silent; reluctant to join in conversation.
ex. People who are taciturn are usually shy.
14. tenable: capable of being maintained.
ex. The school is tenable.
15. largesse: money given with ease.
ex. Rich people largesse to charities.
16. excoriation: to strip off or remove the skin from.
ex. I excoriated the pen mark from my forearm.
17. encomium: a formal expression of high praise.
ex. An encomium by the president greeted the returning hero.
18. germane: closely related.
ex. The Humpback whale and the Blue whale are germane.
19. invidious: offensive or hateful.
ex. Demons are invidious.
20. insatiable: incapable of being satisfied.
ex. Selfish teenagers are insatiable.
21. reconnaissance: getting information ahead of time.
ex. You can get reconnaissance from looking at the school calendar.
22. ramify: to divide or spread out.
ex. Students always ramify in the hallways.