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acquisitive able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth and property
arrogate to claim or take without right
banal hackneyed, trite,commonplace
belabor to work on excessive to thrash soundly
carping tending to findfault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way, petty, nagging criticism
coherent holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful
congeal to change from liquid to solid, thicken, to make inflexible or rigid
emulate to imitate withthe intent of equaling or surpassing the model
encomium a formal expression of praise, lavish tribute
eschew to avoid, shun, keep away
germane relevant, appropriate aprpos, fitting
insatiable so great or demanding as not to be satisfired
intransigent refusing to compromise irreconcilable
invidious offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment
largesse generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions
reconnaissance a survey made for military purposes any kind of preliminary insprection or examination
substantiate to establish by eidence,prove to give concrete or substantial form to
taciturn habitually silentor quiet
temporize to stallor act evasively in order to gain time
tenable capable of being held or defended
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