| Word |
Definition/Synonym |
Antonym |
| acquisitive | (adj) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property; greedy, grasping, avaricious, retentive | altruistic, unretentive |
| arrogate | (v)to claim or take without right; expropriate, usurp, commandeer | relinquish, renounce, abdicate, abandon |
| banal | (adj) hackneyed, trite, commmonplace; stale, insipid | fresh, novel, original, new |
| belabor | (v) to work excessively; to thrash soundly; overwork | |
| carping | (adj) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way;(n) petty, nagging criticism; nit-picking, caviling | approving, uncritical |
| coherent | (adj) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful; connected, unified, consistent, cohesive | muddled, cahotic, disjointed |
| congeal | (v) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid; harden, jell, coagulate, solidify | melt, liquefy |
| emulate | (v)to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model; copy, mimic, rival, match, measure up to | |
| encomium | (n)a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute; panegyric, eulogy, commendation | condemnation, castigation, criticism |
| eschew | (v)to avoid, shun, keep away from; abstain from stter clear of forgo | embrace, adopt |
| germane | (adj) appropriate, apropos, fitting, relevant, pertinent | irrelevant, extraneous, inappropriate |
| insatiable | (adj) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied; unquenchable, ravenous, voracious | |
| intransigent | (adj) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable; uncompromising, unyielding, obdurate | lukewarm, halfhearted, yielding |
| invidious | (adj) offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment | complimentary, flattering, ameliorative |
| largesse | (n) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions; liberality, munificence, bounty | stinginess, miserliness, niggardliness |
| reconnaissance | (n) a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination; scouting, expedition | |
| substantiate | (v) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to; verify confirm, validate, authenticate | refute, disprove, invalidate |
| taciturn | (adj) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little; tight-lipped, uncommunicative, laconic | garrulous, loquacious, prolix, verbose |
| temporize | (v) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise; hedge, dillydally, procrastinate | |
| tenable | (adj) capable of being held or defended; defensible, justifiable, maintainable | indefensible, unjustifiable |
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