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20 Cards in this Set
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Acquisitive
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able to get and retain ideas or info; concerned with acquiring wealth or property.
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Arrogate
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To claim or take without right.
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Banal
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hackneyed, trite, common place.
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Belabor
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to work on excessively; to thrash soundly.
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carping
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tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way.
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Coherent
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holding or sticking together; making a logical whole.
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Congeal
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to change from liquid to solid, thicken.
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emulate
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to imitate with the intent or equaling or surpassing the model.
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Encomium
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a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute.
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Eschew
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to avoid, shun, keep away from.
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Germane
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Relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting.
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Insatiable
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so great or demanding as not to be satisfied.
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Intransigent
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refusing to compromise, irreconcilable.
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INvidious
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offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment.
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Largesse
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generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions.
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Reconnaissance
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a survey made for military purposes; and kind of preliminary inspection or examination.
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Substantiate
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to establish by evidence, prove
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Taciturn
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habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little.
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Temporize
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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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Tenable
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Capable of being held or defended.
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