| A | B |
|---|
| ARROGATE | (V) To claim or take without right. |
| AQUISITIVE | (ADJ) Able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property. |
| BANAL | (ADJ) hackneyed, trite, commonplace |
| BELABOR | (V)To work on excessively; to thrash soundly. |
| CARPING | (ADJ)Tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; petty (N) nagging criticism |
| COHERENT | (ADJ) Holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful. |
| CONGEAL | (V) To change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid. |
| EMULATE | (V) To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model. |
| ENCOMIUM | (N) A formal expression of praise; a lavish tribute. |
| GERMANE | (ADJ) Relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting. |
| ESCHEW | (V) To avoid, shun, keep away from |
| INSATIABLE | (ADJ) So great or demanding as not to be satisfied. |
| INTRANSIGENT | (ADJ) Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable |
| INVIDIOUS | (ADJ) Offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment |
| LARGESSE | (N) Generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributors |
| RECONNAISSANCE | (N) A survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination. |
| SUBSTANTIATE | (V) To establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to |
| TACITURN | (ADJ) Habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little |
| TEMPORIZE | (V) To stall in order to gain time, avoid confrontation, or postpone a decision, to compromise |
| TENABLE | (ADJ) Capable of being held or defended. |
