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Acquisitive
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(adj) able to get and retain idea 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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Syn: 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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Syn: 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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Syn: 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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Syn: nit-picking, caviling. Ant: 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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Syn: connected, unified, consistent, cohesive.
Ant: 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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Syn: harden, jell, coagulate, solidify.
Ant: melt, liquify. |
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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, 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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Syn: panegyric, eulogy, commendation.
Ant: condemnaion, 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.
Ant: embrace, adopt. |
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Germane
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(adj) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting.
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Syn: pertinent
Ant: irrelevent, 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: uncompromising, unyielding, obdurate.
Ant: 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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Syn: malicious, spiteful, prejudicial, pejorative.
Ant: complimentary, flattering, ameliorative. |
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Largesse
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(n) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions.
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Syn: liberality, munificence, bounty
Ant: stinginess,miserliness. |
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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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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.
Ant: 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, laconic
Ant: garrulous, loquacious, prolix, verbose. |
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Temporize
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(v) to stall or act evasively in order to gain tme, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise
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Syn: hedge, dillydally, procrastinate.
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Tenable
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(adj) capable of being held or defended.
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Syn: defensible, justifiable, maintainable.
Ant: indefensible, unjustifiable. |
