Question: encomium

Answer: (n.) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

“the encomium due to the brave”

Question: coherent

Answer: (adj.) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful

“a coherent explanation”

Question: belabor

Answer: (v.) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

“belabor the obvious”

Question: eschew

Answer: (v.) to avoid, shun, keep away from

“eschew bad habits”

Question: acquisitive

Answer: (adj.) able to get and to retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property

“an acquisitive society”

Question: emulate

Answer: (v.) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

“emulate a great writer”

Question: arrogate

Answer: (v.) to claim or take without right

“arrogate royal privileges to themselves”

Question: banal

Answer: (adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace

“banal dialogue”

Question: excoriation

Answer: (n.) a strong denunciation; the act or state of stripping or wearing off the skin

“a violent excoriation of the traitor”

Question: congealed

Answer: (v.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make infexible or rigid

“as the drop o fblood slowly congealed”