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DEFINE: Acquisitive
Able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property
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DEFINE: Arrogate
To claim or take without right
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DEFINE: Banal
Hackneyed, trite, commonplace.
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DEFINE: Belabor
To work on excessively; to thrash soundly.
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DEFINE: Carping
Tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (N) Petty, nagging criticism
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DEFINE: Coherent
Holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful
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DEFINE: Congeal
To change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid
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DEFINE: Emulate
To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model
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DEFINE: Encomium
A formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
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DEFINE: Eschew
To avoid, shun, keep away from
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DEFINE: Germane
Relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting
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DEFINE: Insatiable
So great or demanding as not to be satisfied
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DEFINE: Intransigent
Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
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DEFINE: Invidious
Offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment
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DEFINE: Largesse
Generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions
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DEFINE: Reconnnaissance
A survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination
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DEFINE: Substantiate
To establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to
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DEFINE: Taciturn
Habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little
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DEFINE: Temporize
To stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise
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DEFINE: Tenable
Capable of being held or defended
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