| A | B |
| acquisitive | altruistic, unretentive |
| arrogate | relinquish, renounce, abdicate, abandon |
| banal | fresh, novel, original, new |
| belabor | belabor |
| carping | approving, uncritical |
| coherent | muddled, chaotic, disjointed |
| congeal | melt, liquefy |
| emulate | emulate |
| encomium | condemnation, castigation, criticism |
| eschew | embrace, adopt |
| germane | irrelevant, extraneous, inappropriate |
| insatiable | insatiable |
| intransigent | lukewarm, halfhearted, yielding |
| invidious | complimentary, flattering, ameliorative |
| largesse | stinginess, miserliness, niggardliness |
| reconnaissance | reconnaissance |
| substantiate | refute, disprove, invalidate |
| taciturn | garrulous, loquacious, prolix, verbose |
| temporize | temporize |
| tenable | indefensible, unjustifiable |
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