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20 Cards in this Set
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Acquisitive
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able to get and retain ideas or information
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Arrogate
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to claim or take without right
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Banal
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hackneyed,trite,commonplace
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Belabor
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to work or excessively; to thrash soundly
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Carping
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tending to find fault, especially in a petty,nasty, or hairsplitting way;petty,nagging criticism
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Coherent
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holding or sticking together; making a locical whole; comprehensible,meaningful
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Congeal
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to change form liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid
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Emulate
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to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model
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Encomium
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a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
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Eschew
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to avoid, shun, keep away from
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Germane
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relavent, appropriate, apropos, fitting
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Insatiable
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so great or demanding as not to be satisfied
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Intransigent
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refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
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Invidious
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offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment
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Largesse
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generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions
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Reconnaissance
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a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination
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Substantiate
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to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to
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Taciturn
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habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little
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Temporize
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to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise
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Tenable
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capable of being held or defended
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