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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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Synonym: greedy, grasping, avaricious, retentive
Antonym: altruistic, unretentive |
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arrogate
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(v) to claim or take without right
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Synonym: expropriate, usurp, commandeer
Antonyms: relinquish, renounce, abdicate, abandon |
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banal
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(adj) hackneyed, trite, commonplace
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Synonym: stale, insipid
Antonym, fresh, novel, original, new |
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belabor
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(v) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly
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Synonym: 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
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Synonym: nit picking, caviling
antonym: 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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synonyms: connected, unified, consistent, cohesive
antonyms: muddled, chaotic, disjointed |
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Congeal
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(v) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid
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synonym: harden, jell, coagulate, solidify
antonyms: melt, liquefy |
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Emulate
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(v) to imitate with intent of equaling or surpassing the model
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Synonym: copy, mimic, rival, match, measure up to
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Encomium
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(n) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
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Synonym: panegyric, eulogy, commendation
Antonym: condemnation, castigation, criticsm |
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Eschew
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(v) to avoid shun or keep away
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Synonym: abstain from
Antonym: embrace |
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Germane
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(adj) relevant, appropriate,fitting
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Synonym: pertinent
Antonym: irrelevant, extraneous, inappropriate |
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Insatiable
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(adj) so great or demanding as not be satisfied
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Synonym: unquenchable, ravenous, voracious
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Intransigent
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(adj) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
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Synonym: uncompromising, unyielding, obdurate
Antonym: lukewarm, halfhearted, yielding |
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Invidious
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(adj) offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment
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Synonym: malicious, spiteful, prejudicial, pejorative
Antonym: Complementary, flattering, ameliorative |
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Largesse
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(n) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions
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Synonym: liberality, munificence, bounty
Antonym: stinginess, miserliness, niggardliness |
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Reconnaissance
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(n) a 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
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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 defended
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