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Able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquaring property (adj)
acquisitive
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to claim or take without right (verb)
arrogate
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hackneyed, trite, commonplace (adj)
banal
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to work on excessively; to thrash soundly (verb)
belabor
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tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (adj)
petty, nagging criticism (noun)
carping
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holding or sticking tegether; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful (adj)
coherent
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to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid (verb)
congeal
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to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model (verb)
emulate
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a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute (noun)
encomium
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to avoid, shun, keep away from (verb)
eschew
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relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting (adj)
germane
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so great or demanding as not to be satisfied (adj)
insatiable
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refusing to compromise, irreconciliable (adj)
intransigent
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offensive, hateful; tending to cause betterness and resentment (adj)
invidious
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generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions (noun)
largesse
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a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination (noun)
reconnaissance
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to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to (verb)
substantiate
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habitually silent or quiet; inclined to talk very little (adj)
taciturn
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to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise (verb)
temporize
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capable of being held or defended (adj)
tenable
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