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20 Cards in this Set
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able to get and reatin ideas or information conecerned with acquiring wealth or property
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acquisitive
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to claim or take without right
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arrogate
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hackneyed trite commonplace
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banal
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to work on excessively to thrash soundly
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belabor
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tending to find fault especially in a petty nasty or hairsplitting way
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carping
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holding or sticking together making a logical whole comprehensible meaningful
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coherent
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to change from liquid to solid thicken to make inflexible or rigid
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congeal
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to imitate with the intent to equaling or surpassing the model
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emulate
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a formal expression of praise a lavish tribute
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encomium
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to avoid shun keep away from
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eschew
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relevant appropriate apropos fitting
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germane
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so great or demanding as not be satisfied
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insatiable
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refusing to compromise irreconcilable
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intransigent
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offensive hateful tending to cause bitterness and resentment
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invidious
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generosity in giving lavish or bountiful contributions
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largesse
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a survey made for military purposes any kind of preliminary inspection or examination
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reconnaissance
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to establish by evidence prove to give concrete or substantial form to
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substantiate
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habitually silent or quiet incline to talk very little
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taciturn
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to stall or act evasively in order to gain time avoid a confrontation or postpone a decision to compromise
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temporize
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capable of being held or defended
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tenable
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