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Acquisitive adj

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Able to and retain ideas or information
Concerned with acquiring wealth or property
+greedy, grasping, avaricious, retentive
- altruistic, unretentive

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Arrogate v

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To claim or take without right
+ expropriate, usurp, commandeer
- relinquish, renounce, abdicate, abandon

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Banal adj

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Hackneyed, trite, commonplace

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Belabor v

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To work on excessively
To thrash soundly
+ overwork

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Carping adj

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Tending to find fault in a peety, nasty way
(n) Petty, nagging criticism
+ adj nit-picking, caviling

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Coherent adj

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Holding or sticking together
Making a logical whole
Comprehensible, meaningful
+ Connected, unified, consistent, cohesive

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Congeal v

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To change from liquid to solid, thicken
To make inflexible or rigid
+ harden, coagulate, solidify
- melt, liquefy

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Emulate v

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To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model
_ copy, mimic, roval, match, measure up to

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Encomium n

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A formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
+ panegyric, eulogy, commendation
- condemnation, castigation, criticism

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Eschew v

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To avoid, shun, keep away from
+ abstain from, forgo
- embrace, adopt

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Germane adj

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Relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting
+ pertinent
- extraneous, irrelevant

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Insatiable adj

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so demanding as not to be satisfied

+ unquenchable, ravenous, voracious

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Intransigent adj

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Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
+ unyielding, obdurate
- lukewarm, yielding

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Invidious adj

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Offensive, hateful
Bitter, resented
+ malicious, spiteful, prejudicial, pejorative
- complimentary, flattering, ameliorative

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Largesse n

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Generosity in giving
Lavish or bountiful contributions
+ liberality, munificence, bounty
- stinginess, miserliness, niggardliness

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Reconnaissance n

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A survey made for military purposes
Any kind of preliminary inspection or examination
Sự thăm dò, trinh sát
+ scouting expedition

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Substantiate v

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To establish by evidence, prove
To give concrete form to
+ verify, confirm, validate, authenticate
- refute, disprove, invalidate

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Taciturn adj

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Habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little
+ uncommunicative, laconic
- garrulous, loquacious, prolix, verbose

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Temporize v

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To stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision
To compromise
+ hedge, dilly dally, procrastinate

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Tenable adj

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Capable of being held or defended
+ defensible, justifiable, maintainable
- indefensible, unjustifiable

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Accost v

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To approach and speak to first
To confront in a challenging or aggressive way
+ approach, confront
- evade, avoid, shun

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Animadversion n

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A comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval
+ rebuke, reproof
- praise, compliment

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Avid adj

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Desirous of something to the point of greed
Intensely eager
+ keen, enthusiastic, grasping
- reluctant, indifferent, unenthusiastic

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Brackish adj

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Having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink
+ saline
- fresh, clear sweet

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Celerity n

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Swiftness, rapidity of motion or action
+ promptness. alacrity
- sluggishness, dilatoriness

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Devious adj

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Straying or wandering from a straight or direct course
Done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way
+ roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly ,artiful
- direct, straightforward, open, aboveboard

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Gambit n

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In chess, an opening move that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage
+ ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver

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Halcyon n

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+ tranquil, serene, placid, palmy

- turbulent, chaotic, tumultuous

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Histrionic adj

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melodramatic, theatrical

+ affected, stagy

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Incendiary adj

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Deliberately setting or causing fires
Tending to stir up strife or rebellion
+ inflammatory, provocative (n) firebrand
- soothing, quieting (n) peacemaker

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Maelstrom n

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+ vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult

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Myoptic adj

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Nearsighted
Lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation 
Lacking foresight or discernment 
\+ shortsighted 
- farsighted
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Overt adj

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Open
Expressed or revealed in a way that’s easily recognized
+ clear, obvious, manifest, patent
- secret, covert, clandestine

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Pejorative adj

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Tending to make worse
Expressing disapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling
- complimentary, ameliorative

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Propriety n

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Appropriateness
Standards of what is proper or socially acceptable
+ decorum
- unseemliness, inappropriateness

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Sacrilege n

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Improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred
+ desecration, profanation, defilement

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Summarily adv

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Without delay or formality
Briefly concisely
+ promptly, peremptorily, abruptly

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Suppliant adj

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Asking humbly and earnestly

(n) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly

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Talisman n

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An object that serves as a charm or is believed to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish

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Undulate v

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To move in or have a wavelike motion/appearance/form

+ ripple, fluctuate

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Articulate v

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To express well in words; Pronounce distinctly
(adj) able to employ language clearly and forcefully; jointed
+ (v) pronounce, elucidate (adj) eloquent

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Cavort v

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TO dance/jump around exuberantly

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Credence n

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Belief, netal acceptance

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Decry v

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To condemn, express strong disapproval
To officially depreciate
+ denounce, censure, devalue
0 tout, commend, extol, laud, praise

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Dissemble v

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To disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false impression
+ dissimulate, mask, feign

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Distraught adj

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Very agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict
+ frantic, distracted
- calm, composed, collected

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Eulogy n

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High praise
+ panegyric, encomium, tribute, testimonial
- philippic, diatribe, invective

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Evince v

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To display clearly
To make evident
To provoke
+ exhibit, manifest, occasion

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Exhume v

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To remove from a grave, bring to light

+ disinter, unearth

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Feckless adj

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Lacking in spirit and strength
Ineffective, weak, irresponsible, unreliable
+ feeble, helpless, incompetent, ineffectual
- competent, capable, effective

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Murky adj

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Dark and gloomy, obscure
Lacking in clarity
- clear, transparent, lucid, limpid

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Nefarious adj

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Wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standards
+ Iniquitous, reprehensible
- Virtuous, meritorious, praiseworthy

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Piquant adj

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Stimulating to the taste or mind 
Spicy, pungent 
Appealingly provocative 
\+ tangy, zestful 
- bland, insipid, tasteless, mild
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Primordial adj

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developed or created at the very beginning
going back to the most ancient times or earliest stage
fundamental
+ original, primeval, primal

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Propinquity n

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Nearness in place or time
Kinship
+ proximity, similarity
- remoteness, distance

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Unwonted adj

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Not usual or expected
+ unusual,uncommon, unexpected, atypical
- usual, customary, typical

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Utopian adj

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Founded upon a visionary view of an ideal world
Impractical
+ idealistic

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Verbiage n

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Language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the content
Wordiness
+ verbosity, prolixity

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Verdant adj

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green
Immature in experience or judgment
+ artless, naive
- scorched, srere, barren arid

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Viscous adj

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Having a gelatinous quality
Lacking in easy movement or fluidity
+ gummy, sticky, thick
- runny, watery, aqueous

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