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acquisitive
able to get and retain ideas or information, concerned with acquiring wealth or property, retentive, avaricious
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arrogate
to claim or take without right, expropriate
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banal
hackneyed, trite, commonplace
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belabor
to work on excessively, to thrash soundly
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carping
tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way, petty criticism, caviling
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coherent
holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensive, disjoined (a)
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congeal
to change from liquid to solid, to make inflexible or rigid
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emulate
to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model
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encomium
a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute, panegyric, eulogy
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eschew
to avoid, shun, keep away from
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germane
relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting
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insatiable
so great or demanding as not to be satisfied
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intransigent
refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
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invidious
offensive, hateful, tending to cause bitterness and resentment, pejorative
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largesse
generosity in giving, lavish or bountiful contributions
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reconnaissance
a survey made for military purposes, any kind of preliminary inspection or examination
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substantiate
to establish by evidence, prove, to give concrete or substantial form to
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taciturn
habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little, prolix (a)
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temporize
to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise
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tenable
capable of being held or defended
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accost
to approach and speak to first, to confront in a challenging or aggressive way
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animadversion
a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval
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avid
desirous of something to the point of greed, intensely eager
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brackish
having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink
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celerity
swiftness, rapidity of motion or action
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devious
straying or wandering from a straight or direct course, done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way
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gambit
in chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type
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halcyon
a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful, happy, golden, prosperous, affluent
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histrionic
pertaining to actors and their techniques, theatrical, artificial, melodramatic, affected
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incendiary
deliberately setting or causing fires, one who does so, firebrand
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maelstrom
a whirlpool of great size and violence or a situation resembling such
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myopic
nearsighted, lacking a broad realistic view of a situation
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overt
open, not hidden, manifest, patent
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perjorative
tending to make worse, expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling ameliorative (a)
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propriety
the state of being proper, appropriateness, fitness
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sacrilege
improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred, profanation
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summarily
without delay or formality, briefly, concisely, peremptorily
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suppliant
asking humbly and earnestly, one who makes such a request, a petitioner, a suitor
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talisman
an object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, fetish
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undulate
to move in waves or with a wavelike motion, to have a wavelike appearance or form, ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall
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