- acquisitive: able to get and retain ideas or information
- arrogate: to claim or take without right
- banal: hackneyed, trite, commonplace
- belablor: to thrash
- carping: tending to find fault
- coherent: holding or sticking together
- congeal: to change from liquid to solid
- emulate: to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model
- encomium: a formal expression of praise
- eschew: to avoid, shun, keep away from
- germane: relevant, appropriate, apropos
- infransigent: refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
- insatiable: so great or demanding as not to be satisfied
- invidous: offensive, hateful
- largesse: generosity in giving: lavish or bountiful contibutions
- reconnaissance: a survey made for military purpose
- substantiate: to establish by evidence, prove
- taciturn: habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little
- temporize: to stall or act evasively in order to gain time
- tenable: capable of being held or defended