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20 Cards in this Set
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Acquisitive |
Able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property |
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Arrogate |
To claim or take without right. |
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Banal |
Hackneyed, trite, commonplace. |
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Belabor |
To work on excessively; to thrash soundly |
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Carping |
Tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty way. |
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Coherent |
Holding or sticking together; making a logical whole. |
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Congeal |
To change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid. |
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Emulate |
To irritate with the intent or equaling or surpassing the model. |
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Encomium |
A formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute. |
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Eschew |
To avoid, shun, keep away from |
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Germane |
Relevant, appropriate. |
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Insatiable |
So great or demanding as not to be satisfied. |
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Intrasnigent |
Refusing to compromise |
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Invidious |
Offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness. |
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Largesse |
Generosity in giving; lavish or contributions. |
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Reconnaissance |
A survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection. |
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Substantiate |
To establish by evidence, prove. |
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Taciturn |
Habitually silent or quiet. |
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Temporize |
To stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation. |
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Tenable |
Capable of being held or defended. |
