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| Acquisitive | (adj.) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property. Syn:greedy, grasping, avaricious, retentive. Ant:altruistic, unretentive. Ex. In an _______ society, there is a great deal of emphasis on buying and selling. |
| Arrogate | (v.) to claim or take without right. Syn:expropriate, usurp, commandeer. Ant:relinquish, renounce, abdicate, abandon. Ex. The ambitious noblemen will put the young kind under house arrest and ______ royal privileges to themselves. |
| Banal | (adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace. Syn:stale, insipid. Ant:fresh, novel, original, new. Ex. The new play's ______ dialogue made it seem more like a sop opera than a serious drama. |
| Belabor | (v.) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly. Syn:overwork. Ex. His tendency to ______ the small points often made him miss the big picture. |
| Carping | (adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n.) petty, nagging criticism. Syn:(adj.) nit-picking, cavailing. Ant:(adj.) approving, uncritical. Ex. The trainee resigned after a week rather than put up with the ______ complaints of the slaves. Ex. Most artists choose to ignore the ______ of critics and simply go on with their work. |
| Coherent | (adj.) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful. Syn:connected, unified, consistent, cohesive. Ant:muddled, chaotic, disjointed. Ex. The physics teacher gave a surprisingly _______ description of quantum mechanics. |
| Congeal | (v.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid. Syn: harden, jell, coagulate. Ant:melt, liquefy. Ex. If you do not wash your dishes right away, the food on them will ______. |
| Emulate | (v.) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model. Syn:copy, mimic, rival, match, measure up to. Ex. Most beginning writers try to _______ a great writer and later develop their own individual styles. |
| Encomium | (n.) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute. Syn:panegyric, eulogy, commendation. Ant:condemnation, castigation, criticism. Ex. On Veterans Day, the President delivered a heartfelt ______ to those who died for their country. |
| Eschew | (v.) to avoid, shun, keep away from. Syn:abstain from, steer clear of, forgo. Ant:embrace, adopt. Ex. The young athletes promised the coach that they would train vigorously and ______ bad habits. |
| Germane | (adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting. Syn:pertinent. Ant: irrelevant, extraneous, inappropriate. Ex. Bringing up examples from the past is not _______ to the present discussion. |
| Insatiable | (adj.) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied. Syn:unquenchable, ravenous, voracious. Ex. People with an ______ appetite for gossip often do not have compelling stories of their own. |
| Intransigent | (adj.) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable. Syn:uncompromising, unyielding, obdurate. Ant: lukewarm, halfhearted, yielding. Ex. Little will get accomplished if the legislators of both parties maintain their ______ attitudes. |
| Invidious | (adj.) offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment. Syn:malicious, spiteful, prejudicial, pejorative. Ant:complimentary, flattering, ameliorative. Ex. Teachers should avoid making ______ comparisons between their students. |
| Largesse | (n.) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions. Syn; liberality, munificence, bounty. Ant:stinginess, miserliness, niggardliness. Ex. The university was the fortunate beneficiary of the ______ of many of its graduates. |
| Reconnaissance | (n.) a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination. Syn:scouting expedition. Ex. The field officer required a thorough ______ before ordering any troop movements. |
| Substantiate | (v.) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to. Syn: verify, confirm, validate, authenticate. Ant:refute, disprove, invalidate. Ex. The prospector was unable to ______ his claim to the land where the gold was found. |
| Taciturn | (adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little. Syn:tight-lipped, uncommunicative, laconic. Ant;garrulous, loquacious, prolix, verbose. Ex. Abraham Lincoln has the reputation of having a dour and ______ personality. |
| Temporize | (v.) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise. Syn:hedge, dillydally, procrastinate. Ex. For most of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, the protagonist Hamlet chooses to ______ rather than act. |
| Tenable | (adj.) capable of being held or defended. Syn:defensible, justifiable, maintainable. Ant:indefensible, unjustifiable. Ex. The researchers put forth a _______ theory, but their conclusions would be reviewed carefully by others. |
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