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acquisitive
adj. able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property
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acquisitive
greedy, avaricious, retentive (syn.)
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acquisitive
altruistic (ant.)
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arrogate
v. to claim or take without right
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arrogate
expropriate, commandeer (syn.)
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arrogate
renounce, abdicate, abandon (ant.)
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banal
adj. hackneyed, trite, commonplace
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banal
stale, insipid (syn.)
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banal
fresh, original, new (ant.)
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belabor
v. to work on excessively; to thrash soundly
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carping
adj. tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way
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carping
n. petty, nagging criticism
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carping
nit-picking, caviling (syn.)
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carping
approving, uncritical (ant.)
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coherent
adj. holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful
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coherent
connected, unified, consistent, cohesive (syn.)
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coherent
muddled, chaotic, disjointed (ant.)
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congeal
v. to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid
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congeal
harden, jell, solidify (syn.)
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emulate
v. to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model
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emulate
copy, mimic, rival, match, measure up to (syn.)
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encomium
n. a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
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encomium
panegyric, eulogy (syn.)
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encomium
condemnation, castigation, criticism (ant.)
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eschew
v. to avoid, shun, keep away from
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eschew
abstain from, steer clear of, forgo (syn.)
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eschew
embrace, adopt (ant.)
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germane
adj. relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting
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germane
irrelevant, extraneous, inappropriate (ant.)
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insatiable
adj. so great or demanding as not to be satisfied
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insatiable
unquenchable, ravenous (syn.)
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intransigent
adj. refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
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intransigent
uncompromising, unyielding, obdurate (syn.)
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intransigent
lukewarm, halfhearted, yielding (ant.)
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invidious
adj. offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment
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invidious
malicious, spiteful, prejudicial, pejorative (syn.)
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invidious
flattering, ameliorative (ant.)
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largesse
n. generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions
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largesse
liberality, bounty (syn.)
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largesse
stinginess, miserliness, niggardliness (ant.)
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reconnaissance
n. a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination
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reconnaissance
exploration (syn.)
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substantiate
v. to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to
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substantiate
confirm, validate, authenticate (syn.)
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substantiate
refute, disprove, invalidate (ant.)
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taciturn
adj. habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little
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taciturn
tight-lipped, uncommunicative, laconic (syn.)
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taciturn
garrulous, loquacious, prolix, verbose (ant.)
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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
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temporize
dillydally, procrastinate (syn.)
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tenable
adj. capable of being held or defended
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tenable
defensible, justifiable, maintainable (syn.)
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tenable
indefensible, unjustifiable (ant.)
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