Vocab #3

• Encomium: Warm or glowing praise. Many Americans gave the president encomium for getting Osama bin Laden.

• Coherent: Sticking together. That group is really coherent.

• Belabor: To attack with blows. To go over repeatedly or for a long time. They took a wheel and belabored it on a spin test.
• Eschew: To avoid, shun. The woman kept eschewing the man who was following her.
• Acquisitive: Characterized by a strong desire to gain or posses. The athlete was acquisitive about his dream to go to the top.
• Emulate: To strike to equal or excel through imitation. The brother emulated his older brother.
• Arrogate: To claim, take, or assume for one self without right. Britain arrogated a colony in Africa.
• Banal: Lacking freshness or originality; hackneyed. Green day is a banal band.
• Excoriation: To tear or wear off the skin off. Farmers excoriate the skins of deer.
• Congeal: To solidify, as by freezing. Water is a congeal at low temperatures.
• Carping: Nagging critical or complaining. The wife loves to carp the husband.
• Substantiate: To support with proof or evidence. The case was only a substantiate one.
• Temporize: To compromise or act evasively on order to gain time, and argument. The woman temporize the agent.
• Largesse: Liberality in giving, when attended by condescension. Thanks giving is a largesse holiday.
• Tenable: Capable of being defended or sustained. The white house is tenable.
• Insatiable: Incapable of being satiated, never satisfied. Rich people are insatiable.
• Reconnaissance: An inspection or exploration of an area. The reconnaissance team came back from Europe.
• Germane: Having significant bearing upon a point of hand. A captain must be germane about his heading.
• Ramify: To divide into or cause to expand in branches or branch like root. A seed might ramify into a tree.
• Intransigent: Refusing to moderate any extreme position. The U.S.S.R. was intransigent before it collapse.
• Taciturn: Uncommunicative. A man dream girl is taciturn.
• Invidious: Tending to rouse ill will, animosity, or resentment.The man over there is invidious towards your family.