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To claim or take without right

Antonym: renounce, abdicate, abandon

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Arrogate

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Able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property

Antonym: Altruistic

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Acquisitive

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Hackneyed, trite, commonplace

Antonym: fresh, original, new

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Banal

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To work on excessively; to thrash soundly

Antonym: (none)

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Belabor

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Tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; petty, nagging criticism

Antonym:approving, uncritical

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Carping

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Holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful

Antonym: muddled, chaotic, disjointed

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Coherent

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To change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid

Antonym:liquefy

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Congeal

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To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

Antonym: (none)

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Emulate

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A formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

Antonym: condemnation, castigation, criticism

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Encomium

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To avoid, shun, keep away from

Antonym: embrace, adopt

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Eschew

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Relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

Antonym:irrelevant, extraneous, inappropriate

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Germane

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So great or not demanding as to be satisfied

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Insatiable

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Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

Antonym: lukewarm, halfhearted, yielding

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Intransigent

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Offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment

Antonym: flattering, ameliorative

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Invidious

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Generously in giving, lavish or bountiful contributions

Antonym: stinginess, miserliness, niggardliness

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Largesse

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A survey made of military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination

Antonym: ( none)

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Reconnaissance

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To establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to

Antonym: refute, disprove, invalidate

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Substantiate

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Habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little

Antonym: garrulous, loquacious, prolix, verbose

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Taciturn

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To stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise

Antonym:(none)

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Temporize

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Capable of being held or defended

Antonym: indefensible, unjustifiable

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Tenable

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