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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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balabor
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(v) 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 in a pett, nasty, or hairsplitting way. (n) petty, nagging criticism
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Syn: nitpicking, caviling.
Ant:approving, uncritical |
