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20 Cards in this Set
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Acquisitive
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(adj.) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property. S- greedy, grasping, avaricious, retentive. A- Altruistic, unretentive
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Arrogate
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(v.) to claim or take without right. S- expropriate, usurp,commandeer. A- relinquish, renounce, abdicate, abandon.
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Banal
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(adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace. S- stale, insipid. A- fresh, novel, original, new.
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Belabor
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(v.) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly. S- 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. S- nit-picking, caviling. A- 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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Congeal
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(v.) to change from liquid to solid
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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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Encomium
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(n.) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
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Eschew
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(v.) to avoid, shun, keep away from. b
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germane
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(adj.) relevant appropriate, apropos, fitting.
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insatiable
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(adj.) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied.
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intransigent
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(adj.) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable.
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invidious
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(adj.) offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment
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largesse
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(n.) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions.
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Reconnaissance
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(n.) survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination.
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Substantiate
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(v.) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to.
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Taciturn
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(adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little.
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Temporize
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(v.) 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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(adj.) capable of being held or defended.
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