Vocab Fall List #3

• Encomium - A formal expression of high praise; eulogy.
• Coherent - Logically connected; consistent.
• Belabor - to explain, worry about, or work at (something) repeatedy or more than is necessary.
• Eschew - To abtain or keep away from: shun; aviod.
• Acpuisitive - Tending or seeking to acquir and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possesion, etc.
• Emulate - To try to equal of excel; imitate with effoert to equal or surpass.
• Arrogate - To claim unwarrantably or presumptuously; assume or appropriate to oneslef without right.
• Banal - deviod or fresh or originality; hackeyed; trite.
• Escoriation - The act of excoriating.
• Congeal - To change from a soft or fluid state  to a rigid or solid state, as by cooling or freezing.
• Carping - Characterized by fussy or petulant fualtfinding.
• Substantiale - To establish by proof or competent evidence.
• Temporize - To be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
• Largess - Generous bestowal of gifts.
• Tenable - Capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against attack or dispute.
• Insatiable - Not satiable, incapable of being satisfied or appeased.
• Reconnaissance - The act of reconnoitering.
• Germane - Closley or significantly out into branches or bramchlike parts, extend into subvisions.
• Taciturn - Indined to silence: reserved in speech; reluctant to join in converation.
• Ividious - Calculated toi create ill will or resentment or give offense.