Sadlier 1

Acquisitive

Able to get or retain ideas: concerned with money (syn: greed, avaricious)

Arrogate

To claim or take without right (syn: expropriate, commandeer)

Banal

Hackneyed, trite, commonplace (syn: stale, insipid)

Belabor

To work on excessively, to thrash soundly (syn: overwork)

Carping

Tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way (n.) petty, nagging, criticism. (syn: nit-picking, caviling)

Coherent

Holding or sticking together; making a logical whole: comprehensible, meaningful (syn: connected, unified, consistent, cohesive)

Congeal

To change from liquid to solid, thicken, to make inflexible or rigid (syn: harden, jell, solidify)

Emulate

To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model. (syn: copy, mimic, rival, match, measure up to)

Encomium

A formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute (syn: panegyric, eulogy)

Eschew

To avoid, shun, keep away from. (syn: abstain from , steer clear of, forgo)

Germane

Relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting (syn: pertinent)

Insatiable

So great or demanding as not to be satisfied (syn: unquenchable, ravenous)

Intransigent

Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable (syn: uncompromising, unyielding, obdurate)

Invidious

Offensive; hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment (syn: malicious, spiteful, prejudicial, pejorative)

Largesse

Generosity in giving: lavish or bountiful contributions (syn: liberality, bounty)

Reconnaissance

A survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination (syn: exploration)

Substantiate

To establish by evidence, prove, to give concrete or substantial form to (syn: confirm, validate, authenticate)

Taciturn

Habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little. (syn: tight-lipped, uncommunicative, Iaconic)

Temporize

To act or stall evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or to postpone a decision; to compromise (syn: dillydally, procrastinate)

Tenable

Capable of being held or defended (syn: defensible, justifiable, maintainable)