| Term | Definition |
|---|
| acquisitive | able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property (syn) greedy, grasping, avaricious, retentive (ant) altruistic, unretentive |
| arrogate | to claim or take without right (syn) expropriate, usurp, commandeer (ant) relinquish, renounce, abdicate, abandon |
| banal | hackneyed, trite, commonplace (syn) stale, insipid (ant) fresh, novel, original, new |
| belabor | to work on excessively; to thrash soundly (syn) overwork |
| carping | tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; nagging criticism, petty (syn) nit-picking, caviling (ant) approving, uncritical |
| coherent | holding or sitcking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful (syn) connected, unified, consistent, cohesive (ant) muddled, chaotic, disjointed |
| congeal | to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid (syn) harden, jell, coagulate, solidify (ant) melt, liquefy |
| emulate | to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model (syn) copy, mimic, rival, match, measure up to |
| encomium | a formal expression of praise, lavish tribute (syn) panegyric, eulogy, commendation (ant) condemnation, castigation, criticism |
| eschew | to avoid, shun, keep away from (syn) abstain from, steer clear of, forgo (ant) embrace, adopt |
| germane | relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting (syn) pertinent (ant) irrelevant, extraneous, inappropriate |
| insatiable | so great or demanding as not to be satisfied (syn) unquenchable, ravenous, voracious |
| intransigent | refusing to compromise, irreconcilable (syn) uncompromising, unyielding, obdurate (ant)lukewarm, halfhearted, yielding |
| invidious | offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment (syn) malicious, spiteful, prejudicial, pejorative (ant) complimentary, flattering, ameliorativ |
| largesse | generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions (syn) liberality, munificence, bounty (ant) stinginess, miserliness, niggardliness |
| reconnaissance | a survey made for military puposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination (syn) scouting expedition |
| substantiate | to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to (syn) verify, confirm, validate, autherticat (ant) rfute, disprove, invalidate |
| taciturn | habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little (syn) tight-lipped, uncommunicative, laconic (ant) refute, disprove, invalidate |
| temporize | to stallor act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise (syn) hedge, dillydally, procrastinate |
| tenable | capable of being held or defended (syn) defensible, justifiable, maintainable (ant) indefensible, unjustifiable |
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