vocabulary: fall list #3

coherent: (of an argument, theory, or policy) logical and consistent.


belabor:argue or elaborate (a subject) in excessive detail.


eschew:deliberately avoid using; abstain from.


acquisitive:excessively interested in acquiring money or material things.


emulate:match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation.


banal:so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.


excoriation:


congeal:solidify or coagulate, especially by cooling.


carping:complain or find fault continually, typically about trivial matters.


substantiate:provide evidence to support or prove the truth of.


temporize:avoid making a decision or committing oneself in order to gain time.


largeness:


tenable:able to be maintained or defended against attack or objection


insatiable:(of an appetite or desire) impossible to satisfy.


reconnaissance:military observation of a region to locate an enemy or ascertain strategic features.


germane:relevant to a subject under consideration.


ramify:form branches or offshoots; spread or branch out.


intransigent:unwilling or refusing to change one's views or to agree about something.


taciturn:(of a person) reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little.