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able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or Property
Syn: Retentive
Ant: Altruistic |
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to claim or take without right
Syn: expropriate
Ant: abdicate |
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hackneyed, trite, commonplace
Syn: Insipid |
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| To work on excessively; to thrash soundly |
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tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; petty, nagging criticism
Syn: Caviling |
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| holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful |
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| to change from liquid from solid, thicken, to make inflexible or rigid |
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| to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model |
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a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
Syn: Panegyric, eulogy
Ant: castigation |
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| To avoid, shun, keep away from |
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| relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting |
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| so great or demanding as not to be satisfied |
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refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
Syn: Obdurate |
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offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment
Syn: pejorative |
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| generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions |
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| a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination |
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| to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to |
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habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little
Syn: Laconic |
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| to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise |
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| capable of being held or defended |
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