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20 Cards in this Set
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Acquisitive |
(adj.) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property
Syn: Greedy Avaricious, Retentive Ant: altruistic |
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Arrogate |
(v.) To claim or take without right
Syn: expropriate, commandeer Ant: renounce, abdicate, abandon |
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Banal |
(adj.) Hackneyed, trite, commonplace
Syn: expropriate, commandeer Ant: renounce, abdicate, abandon |
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Belabor |
(v.) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly
syn: overwork |
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Carping |
(adj.) Tending to find fault, in a petty, nasty way (n.) Petty, nagging criticism
Syn: (adj.) nit-picking, caviling Ant: (adj.) approving, uncritical |
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Coherent |
(adj.) Holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful
Syn: connected, unified, consistent, cohesive Ant: muddled, chaotic, disjoined |
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Congeal |
(V.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid
Syn: harden, jell, solidify Ant: liquefy |
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Emulate |
(v.) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model
Syn: copy, mimic, rival, match, measure up to |
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Encomium |
(n.) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
Syn: panegyric, eulogy Ant: condemnation, castigation, criticism |
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Encomium |
(n.) to avoid, shun, keep away from
Syn: abstain from, steer clear of, forgo Ant: embrace, adopt |
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Germane |
(adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting
Syn: Pertinent Ant: irrelevant, extraneous, inappropriate |
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Insatiable |
(adj.) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied
Syn: unquenchable, ravenous |
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Intransigent |
(adj.) Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
Syn: uncompromising, unyielding, obdurate Ant: lukewarm, halfhearted, yielding |
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Invidious |
(adj.) offensive, hateful, tending to cause bitterness and resentment
Syn: malicious, spiteful, prejudicial, pejorative Ant: flattering, ameliorative |
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Largesse |
(n.) Generosity in giving, lavish or bountiful contributions
Syn: liberality, bounty Ant: stinginess, miserliness, niggardliness |
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Reconnaissance |
(n.) survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination
Syn: exploration |
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Substantiate |
(v.) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to
Syn: confirm, validate, authenticate Ant: refute, disprove, invalidate |
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Taciturn |
(adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little
Syn: tight-lipped, uncommunicative, laconic Ant: garrulous, loquacious, prolix, verbose |
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Temporize |
(v.) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise
Syn: dillydally, procrastinate |
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Tenable |
(adj.) capable of being held or defended
Syn: defensible, justifiable, maintainable Ant: indefensible, unjustifiable |
