A:

• Acquisitive - (adj.) able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property
• Arrogate - (v.) to claim or take without right

B:

• Banal - (adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace
• Belabor - (v.) to work on excessively; to trash soundly

C:

• Carping - (adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; (n.) petty, nagging criticism
• Coherent - (adj.) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful
• Congeal - (v.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid

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E:

• Emulate - (v.) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model
• Encomium - (n.) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
• Eschew - (v.) to avoid, shun, keep away from

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G:

• Germane - (adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

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I:

• Insatiable - (adj.) so great or demanding as nto to be satisfied
• Intransigent - (adj.) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
• Invidious - (adj.) offensive, hateful, tending to cause bitterness and resenment

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L:

• Largesse - (n.) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions

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R:

• Reconnaissance - (n.) survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination

S:

• Substantiate - (v.) to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substanial form to

T:

• Taciturn - (adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little
• Temporize - (v.) to stall or act evasively in order to gaine time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise
• Tenable - (adj.) capable of being held or defended

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