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- able to get and retain ideas/info
- concerned w/ wealth or property
SYN: greedy, grasping, avaricious, rententive |
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- to claim or take w/o right
SYN: expropriate, usurp, commandeer |
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- hackneyed, trite, commonplace
SYN: stale, insipid |
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- to work on excessively
- to thrash soundly
SYN: overwork |
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- tending to find fault, esp. in petty, nasty or hairsplitting way
- netty, nasty criticism
SYN: nit-picking, caviling |
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- holding or sticking together
- making a logical whole
- comprehensible, meaningful
SYN: connected, unified, consistent, cohesive |
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- to change from liquid to solid, thicken
- to make inflexible or rigid
SYN: harden, jell, coagulate, solidify |
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- to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model
SYN: copy, mimic, rival, match, measure up to |
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- a formal expression of praise
- a lavish tribute
SYN: panegyric, eulogy, commendation |
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- to avoid, shun, keep away from
SYN: abstain from, steer clear of, forgo |
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- relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting
SYN: pertinent |
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- so great or demanding as not to be satisfied
SYN: unquenchable, ravenous, voracious |
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- refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
SYN uncompromising, unyielding, obdurate |
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- offensive, hatefule
- tending to cause bitterness and resentment
SYN: malicious, spiteful, prejudicial, pejorative |
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- generosity in giving
- lavish or bountiful contributions
SYN: liberality, munificence, bounty |
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- survey made for military purposes
- preliminary inspection/examination
SYN: scouting expedition |
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- to establish by evidence, prove
- to give concrete or substantial form to
SYN: verify, confirm, validate, authenticate |
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- habitually silent or quiet
- inclined to talk very little
SYN: tight-lipped, uncommunicative, laconic |
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- to stall or act evasively inorder to gain time
- avoid a confrontation/postpone a decision
- compromise
SYN: hedge, dillydally, procrastinate |
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- capable of being held or defended
SYN: defensible, justifiable, maintainable |
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