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Arrogate

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(V.) to claim or take without right

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Acquisitive

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(Adj.) able to get and retain ideas of information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property

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Banal

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(Adj.) hackneyed, trite, commonplace

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Belabor

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(V.) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

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Carping

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(Adj.) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way
(N.) petty, nagging criticism

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Coherent

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(Adj.) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful

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Congeal

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(V.) to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid

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Emulate

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(V.) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

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Encomium

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(N.) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute

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Eschew

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(V.) to shun, avoid, keep away from

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Germane

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(Adj.) relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting

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Insatiable

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(Adj.) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied

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Intransigent

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(Adj.) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable

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Invidious

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(Adj.) offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment

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Largesse

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(N.) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions

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Reconnaissance

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(N.) a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination

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Substantiate

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(V.) to establish by evidence l, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to

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Taciturn

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(Adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little

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Temporize

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(V.) 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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(Adj.) capable of being held or defended

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Ad Hominem

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(N.) an argument based on the failings of an adversary rather than on the merits of the case; a logical fallacy that involves a personal attack.

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Allegory

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(N.) extending a metaphor so that objects, persons, and actions in a text are equated with meanings that lie outside the text.

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Alliteration

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(N.) the repetition of an initial consonant sound.

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Allusion

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(N.) a brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event–real or fictional.

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Ambiguity

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(N.) the presence of two or more possible meanings in any passage.

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Analogy

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(N.) reasoning or arguing from parallel cases.

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Anaphora

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(N.) the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.

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Antecedent

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(N.) the noun or noun phrase referred to by a pronoun.