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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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sym: 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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sym: 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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sym: stale, insipid
ant: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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sym: overwork
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carping
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(adj) tending to find fault especially in a petty, nasty, nagging criticism
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sym: nit picking caviling
Ant: approving uncritical |
