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acquisitive
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(adj.) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property.
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Syn:
Greedy, grasping, avaricious, retentive Ant: altruistic, unretentive |
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arrogate
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(v.) to claim or take without right
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Syn: expropriate, usurp, commandeer
Ant: relinquish, renounce, abdicate, abandon |
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banal
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(adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace
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Syn:
stale, insipid Ant: fresh, novel, original, new |
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belabor
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(v.) to work excessively. to thrash soundly
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Syn:
overwork |
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carping
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(adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n.) petty, nagging criticism
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Syn:
nit- picking, caviling Ant: approving, 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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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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encomium
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(n.) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
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Syn:
panegyric, eulogy, commendation Ant: condemnation, castigation, criticism |
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eshew
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(v.) to avoid, shun, keep away from
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Syn:
abstain from, steer clear of, forgo Ant: embrace, adopt |
