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acquisitive Answer: adj. able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring
wealth or property.
syn: greedy, grasping, avaricious, retentive.
ant: altruistic, unretentive
arrogate Answer: v. to claim or take without right
syn: expropriate, usurp, commandeer
ant: relinquish, renounce, abdicate, abandon
banal Answer: adj. hackneyed, trite, commonplace
syn: stale, insipid
ant: fresh, novel, original, new
belabor Answer: v. to work on excessively; to thrash soundly
syn: overwork
carping Answer: adj: tending to find fault, esp in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way. n: petty,
nagging criticism
syn: nit-picking, caviling
adj: approving, uncritical
coherent Answer: adj. holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible,
meaningful
syn: connected, unified, consistent, cohesive
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, ant: muddled, chaotic, disjointed
congeal Answer: v. to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid
syn: harden, jell, coagulate, solidify
ant: melt, liquefy
emulate Answer: v. to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model
syn: copy, mimic, rival, match, measure up tp
encomium Answer: n. a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
syn: panegyric, eulogy, commendation
ant: condemnation, castigation, criticism
eschew Answer: v. to avoid, shun, keep away from
syn: abstain from, steer clear of, forgo
ant: embrace, adopt
germane Answer: adj: relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting
syn: pertinent
ant: irrelevant, extraneous, inappropriate
insatiable Answer: adj. so great or demanding as not to be saitisfied
syn: unquenchable, ravenous, voracious
intransigent Answer: adj. refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
syn: uncompromising, unyielding, obdurate
ant: lukewarm, halfhearted, yielding
invidious Answer: adj. offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness amd resentment
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acquisitive Answer: adj. able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring
wealth or property.
syn: greedy, grasping, avaricious, retentive.
ant: altruistic, unretentive
arrogate Answer: v. to claim or take without right
syn: expropriate, usurp, commandeer
ant: relinquish, renounce, abdicate, abandon
banal Answer: adj. hackneyed, trite, commonplace
syn: stale, insipid
ant: fresh, novel, original, new
belabor Answer: v. to work on excessively; to thrash soundly
syn: overwork
carping Answer: adj: tending to find fault, esp in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way. n: petty,
nagging criticism
syn: nit-picking, caviling
adj: approving, uncritical
coherent Answer: adj. holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible,
meaningful
syn: connected, unified, consistent, cohesive
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, ant: muddled, chaotic, disjointed
congeal Answer: v. to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid
syn: harden, jell, coagulate, solidify
ant: melt, liquefy
emulate Answer: v. to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model
syn: copy, mimic, rival, match, measure up tp
encomium Answer: n. a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
syn: panegyric, eulogy, commendation
ant: condemnation, castigation, criticism
eschew Answer: v. to avoid, shun, keep away from
syn: abstain from, steer clear of, forgo
ant: embrace, adopt
germane Answer: adj: relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting
syn: pertinent
ant: irrelevant, extraneous, inappropriate
insatiable Answer: adj. so great or demanding as not to be saitisfied
syn: unquenchable, ravenous, voracious
intransigent Answer: adj. refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
syn: uncompromising, unyielding, obdurate
ant: lukewarm, halfhearted, yielding
invidious Answer: adj. offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness amd resentment
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