Vocab Workshop G 1-2

able to get and retain ideas or information, concerned with acquiring wealth or property, retentive, avaricious

to claim or take without right, expropriate

hackneyed, trite, commonplace

to work on excessively, to thrash soundly

tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way, petty criticism, caviling

holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensive, disjoined (a)

to change from liquid to solid, to make inflexible or rigid

to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute, panegyric, eulogy

to avoid, shun, keep away from

relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

so great or demanding as not to be satisfied

refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

offensive, hateful, tending to cause bitterness and resentment, pejorative

generosity in giving, lavish or bountiful contributions

a survey made for military purposes, any kind of preliminary inspection or examination

to establish by evidence, prove, to give concrete or substantial form to

habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little, prolix (a)

to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise

capable of being held or defended

to approach and speak to first, to confront in a challenging or aggressive way

a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval

desirous of something to the point of greed, intensely eager

having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink

swiftness, rapidity of motion or action

straying or wandering from a straight or direct course, done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way

in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type

a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful, happy, golden, prosperous, affluent

pertaining to actors and their techniques, theatrical, artificial, melodramatic, affected

deliberately setting or causing fires, one who does so, firebrand

a whirlpool of great size and violence or a situation resembling such

nearsighted, lacking a broad realistic view of a situation

open, not hidden, manifest, patent

tending to make worse, expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling ameliorative (a)

the state of being proper, appropriateness, fitness

improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred, profanation

without delay or formality, briefly, concisely, peremptorily

asking humbly and earnestly, one who makes such a request, a petitioner, a suitor

an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, fetish

to move in waves or with a wavelike motion, to have a wavelike appearance or form, ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall