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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
ant: altruistic |
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arrogate
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(v.) to claim or take without right
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syn: usurp, expropriate
ant: relinquish, reounouce |
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banal
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(adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace
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syn: stale
ant: fresh, novel |
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belabor
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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.) tedning to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way
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syn: nit-picking
ant: approving |
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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
ant: muddled, disjointed |
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congeal
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(v.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken, to make inflexible or ridge
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syn: harden, jell, solidify
ant: melt, liquifey |
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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
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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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eschew
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(v.) to avoid, shun, keep away from
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Syn: abstain from, steer clear of, forgo
Any: embrace, adopt, |
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germane
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(adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting
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Syn: pertinent
Ant: irrelevant, extraneous, inappropriate |
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Insatiable
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(adj.) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied
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Syn: unquenchable, ravenous, voracious
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intransigent
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(adj.) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
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Syn: uncomprmising, unyeilding, obdurate
Ant: lukewarm, halfhearted, yeilding |
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Invidious
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(adj) offensive, hateful, tending to cause bitterness and resentment
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Syn:malicious, spiteful, prejudical, pejorative
Ant: complimentary. flatteriung, ameliroative |
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Largesse
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(n.) gereostiy in giving, lavish or bountiful contributions
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Syn: Liberality, muniuficence, bounty
Ant: stinginess, miserliness, niggardlines |
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Reconnaissance
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(n) a survey made for military purpose; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination
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Syn: scouting, expedition
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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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Syn: verify, confirm, validate, authenticate
Any: refute, disprove, invalidate |
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Taciturn
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(adj) habitually silent, or quiet, inclined to talk very little
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Syn: tight-lipped, uncommunicative
Ant: garrulous, loquacious, prolix, verbose |
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Temporize
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(v) to stall or act, evasively in order to gain time.
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Syn: hegde dillydally
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tenable
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(adj) capable of being held or defended
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Syn: defensible, justifiable,
Ant: indefensible, unjustifiable |
