Vocabulary List #3

• coherent - logically connected ; consistent
• belabor - to explain
• eschew - to abstain or keep away from
• acquisitive - tending or seeking to acquire and own
• emulate - to try , to equal or excel
• banal - originality
• excoriation - to denounce or berate severly
• congeal - to change from soft or fluid state to a rigid or solid state
• carping - characterized by fussy or petulant faultfinding
• substantiate - to establish by proof or competent evidence
• temporize - to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting
• largesse - generous bestowal of gifts
• tenable - capable of being held
• insatiable - incapable of being satisfied
• reconnaissance - a search made for useful military information in the field , especially by examining the ground
• germane - closely or significantly related
• ramify - to divide or spread out into branches or branchlike parts
• intransigent - refusing to agree or compromise
• tacitum - inclined to silence