vocabulary 3 fall list

1. coherent: argument, theory, or policy. The government failed to developed a coherent economic strategy. 2. belabor: argue or elaborate (a subject) in excessive detail. Critics thought they belabored the obvious. 3. eschew: abstain from. Most people try to eschew violence. 4. acquisitive: excessively interested in acquiring money or material things. His acquisitive wife left him for a New York architect. 5. emulate: match or surpass typically by imitation. Lesser man trying to emulate his intelligence. 6. banal: so lacking on originality as to be obvious and boring. Songs with banal, repeated words. 7. excoriation: harsh criticism. He was excoriated as a racist. 8. congeal: solidify or coagulate. The blood congealed into blobs. 9. carping: difficult to please. He has silenced the carping critics with a successful tour. 10. substantiate: provide evidence to support or prove the truth of. They had found nothing to substantiate the allegations. 11. temporize: avoid making a decision or committing oneself in order to gain time. The opportunity was missed because the mayor still temporized. 12. largesse: generosity in bestowing money or gifts upon others. He was dispensing his money with such largesse. 13. tenable: able to defend against attack or objection. Such simplistic approach is no longer tenable. 14. insatiable: impossible to satisfy. An insatiable desire for success. 15. reconnaissance: military observation of a region to locate an enemy. An excellent aircraft for low-level reconnaissance. 16. germane: relevant to a subject under consideration. That's not germane to our theme. 17. ramify: cause to branch or spread out. A ramified to a genealogical network. 18. intransigent: refusing to agree about something. The regime remained intransigent in its opposition to wider participation political processes. 19. taciturn: saying little. She was a small alarmingly taciturn, demon at basketball.