| A | B |
|---|
| acquisitive | concerned with acquiring wealth or property; avaricious; able to get and retain ideas or information |
| arrogate | to take or claim without right; usurp, expropriate commandeer |
| banal | hackneyed, trite, commonplace, overused, dull, boring, stale |
| belabor | to work on excessively; to threash soundly; beat into the ground, overwork |
| carping | tending to find fault with, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way. - petty, nagging criticism; caviling |
| coherent | holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful; connected, unified, consistent, cohesive |
| congeal | to change from liquid to solid; thicken; to make inflexible or rigid. harden, jell, coagulate, solidify |
| emulate | to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model; copy, imitate, mimic |
| encomium | a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute. a tribute, panegyric, eulogy. |
| eschew | to avoid, shun, keep away from |
| excoriation | a strong denunciation; the act or state of stripping or wearing off the skin |
| germane | relevant, appropriate, apropos |
| insatiable | so great or demanding that it connot be satisfied; ravenous, voracious |
| intransigent | refusing to compromise, irreconcilable; unyielding, obdurate, uncompromising |
| invidious | offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment; spiteful, pejorative |
| largesse | generosity in giving; lavish or ountiful contributions; munificence; liberality. |
| ramify | to divide and spread out like branches; to separate into divisions |
| reconnaissance | a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination |
| substantiate | to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to; validate |
| taciturn | habitually silent or quiet. inclined to talk very little |
| temporize | to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; hedge, dilly dally, procrastinate. to compromise |
| tenable | capable of being held or defended |
