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Acquisitive

(adj.) Able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property.

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Arrogate

(v.) To claim or take without right.

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Banal

(adj.) Hackneyed, trite, commonplace.

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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; (n.) petty, nagging criticism.

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Coherent

(adj.) Holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful.

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Congeal

(v.) To change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid.

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Emulate

(v.) To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model.

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Encomium

(n.) A formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute.

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Eschew

(v.) To avoid, shun, keep away from.

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Germane

(adj.) Relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting.

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Insatiable

(adj.) So great or demanding as not to be satisfied.

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Intransigent

(adj.) Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable.

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Invidious

(adj.) Offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment.

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Largesse

(n.) Generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions.

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Reconnaissance

(n.) A survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination.

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Substantiate

(v.) To establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to.

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Taciturn

(adj.) Habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little.

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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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Tenable

(adj.) Capable of being held or defended.

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