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Acquisitive
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adj
able to get or obtain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property |
syn: greedy grasping avaricious retentive
ant: unretentive altruistic |
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arrogate
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verb
to claim or take without right |
syn expropriate usurp
commandeer ant: relingquish renounce abdicate abandon |
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banal
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adj hackeneyed trite commonplace
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syn: state insipid
ant fresh novel original new |
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belabor
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verb to work on excessively ,to thrash soundly
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syn: overwork
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carping
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adj tending to find fault in a petty nasty ir hairsplitting way, (noun) petty nagging in criticism
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syn nitpicking
ant approving and uncritical |
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coherent
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adj holding or sticking together making a logical whole comprehensible meaningful
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syn connected unified consistent cohesive
ant muddled chaotic disjointed |
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congeal
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v to change from liquid to solid thicken to make inflexible or rigid
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syn harden jell coagulate solidify
ant melt liquefy |
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emulate
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v to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model
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syn copy mimic rival match measure up to
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encominum
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noun formal expression of praise a lavish tribute
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syn panegyric eulogy commendation
ant condemnation castigation |
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eschew
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verb to avoid shun keep away from
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syn abstain steer clear of forgo
ant embrace adopt |
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germane
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adj relevant appropriate apropos fitting
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syn pertinent
ant irrelevant extraneous inappropriate |
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insatiable
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adj so great or demanding as not to be satisfied
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syn unquenchable ravenous voracious
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intransigent
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adj refusing to compromise irreconcilable
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syn uncompromising un yielding obdurate
ant lukewarm halfhearted yielding |
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invidious
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adj offensive hateful tending to cause bitterness and resentment
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syn malicious spiteful prejudicial pejorative
ant complimentary flattering ameliorative |
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largesse
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noun genorosity in giving lavish bountiful contriutions
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syn liberality munificence bounty
ant stinginess miserlinessyg |
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reconnaissance
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noun a survey made for military purposes any kind of preliminary inspection or examination
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syn scouting expedition
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substantiate
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v to establish by evidence prove to give concrete or substantial form
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syn verify confirm validate authenticate
ant refute disprove invalidate |
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taciturn
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adj habitually silent or quiet inclined to talk very little
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syn tightlipped uncommunicative laconic
ant garrulous loquacious prolix verbose |
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temporize
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v to stall or at evasively in order to gain time avoid a confrontation or postpone a decision to compromise
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syn hedge dillydally procrastinate
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tenable
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adj capable of being held or defended
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syn defensible justified maintainable
any indefensible unjustifiable |
