| A | B |
|---|
| acquisitive | (adj.) able to get and to retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property |
| arrogate | (v.) to claim or take without right |
| banal | (adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace |
| belabor | (v.) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly |
| carping | (adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n.) petty, nagging criticism |
| coherent | (adj.) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful |
| congeal | (v.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid |
| emulate | (v.) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model |
| encomium | (n.) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute |
| eschew | (v.) to avoid, shun, keep away from |
| excoriation | (n.) a strong denunciation; the act or state of stripping or wearing off the skin |
