7507685679 | Acquisitive | (adj.) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth and prosperity. SYNONYMS: greedy, avaricious, retentive ANTONYMS: altruistic | 0 | |
7507706263 | Arrogate | (v.) to claim or take without right. SYNONYMS: expropriate, commandeer ANTONYMS: renounce, abdicate, abandon | 1 | |
7507722798 | Banal | (adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace. SYNONYMS: stale, insipid ANTONYMS; fresh, original, new | 2 | |
7507733195 | Belabor | (v.) to work excessively;to trash soundly. SYNONYMS: overwork | 3 | |
7507745082 | Carping | (adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n.) petty, nagging criticism. SYNONYMS: (adj.) nit-picking, caviling ANTONYMS: (adj.) approving, uncritical | 4 | |
7507776155 | Coherent | (adj.) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful. SYNONYMS: connected, united, consistent, cohesive ANTONYMS: muddled, chaotic, disjointed | 5 | |
7507794163 | Congeal | (v.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid. SYNONYMS: harden, jell, solidify ANTONYMS: liquefy | 6 | |
7507811979 | Emulate | (v.) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model. SYNONYMS: copy, mimic, rival, match, measure up to | 7 | |
7529392199 | Encomium | (n.) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute. SYNONYMS: panegyric, eulogy ANTONYMS: condemnation, castigation, criticism | 8 | |
7529397898 | Eschew | (v.) to avoid, shun, keep away from. SYNONYMS: abstain from, steer clear of, forgo ANTONYMS: embrace, adopt | 9 | |
7529405875 | Germane | (adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting, SYNONYMS: pertinent ANTONYMS: embrace, adopt | 10 | |
7529412051 | Insatiable | (adj.) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied. SYNONYMS: unquenchable, ravenous | 11 | |
7529419592 | Intransigent | (adj.) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable. SYNONYMS: uncompromising, unyielding, obdurate ANTONYMS: lukewarm, halfhearted, yielding | 12 | |
7529435348 | Invidious | (adj.) offensive, hateful, tending to cause bitterness and resentment. SYNONYMS: malicious, spiteful, prejudicial ANTONYMS: flattering, ameliorative | 13 | |
7529443563 | Largasse | (n.) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions. SYNONYMS: liberality, bounty ANTONYMS: stinginess, miserliness | 14 | |
7529453382 | Reconnaissance | (n.) survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination. SYNONYMS: exploration | 15 | |
7529494713 | Substantiate | (v.) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to. SYNONYMS: confirm, validate, authenticate ANTONYMS: refute, disprove, invalidate | 16 | |
7529504721 | Taciturn | (adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little. SYNONYMS: tight-lipped, uncommunicative, laconic ANTONYMS: garrulous, loquacious, prolix, verbose | 17 | |
7529515241 | Temporize | (v.) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise. SYNONYMS: dillydally, procrastinate | 18 | |
7529520689 | Tenable | (adj.) capable of being held or defended. SYNONYMS: defensible, justifiable, maintainable ANTONYMS: indefensible, unjustifiable | 19 |
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