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20 Cards in this Set
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Acquisitive
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able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property.
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Arrogate
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to claim or take without right; to expropriate, usurp, commandeer.
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Banal
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hackneyed, trite, commonplace; stale, insipid.
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Belabor
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to work on excessively; to thrash soundly.
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Carping
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tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; petty, nagging, criticism.
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Coherent
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holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful.
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Congeal
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to change from a liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid.
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Emulate
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to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model; to copy, mimic, rival, match, measure up to.
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Encomium
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a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute; a panegyric, eulogy, commendation.
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Eschew
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to avoid, shin, keep away from; to abstain from, steer clear of, forgo.
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Germane
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relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting; pertinent.
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Insatiable
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so great or demanding as not to be satisfied; unquenchable, ravenous, voracious.
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Intransigent
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refusing to compromise, irreconcilable; uncompromising, unyielding, obdurate.
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Invidious
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offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment.
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Largesse
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generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions.
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Reconnaissance
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a survey made for military purposed; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination.
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Substantiate
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to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to.
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Taciturn
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habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little; tight-lipped, uncommunicative, laconic.
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Temporize
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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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capable of being held or defended; defensible, justifiable.
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