acquisitive
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- Aquisitive
- able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property
- Arrogate
- to claim or take without right
- Banal
- hackneyed, trite, commonplace
- Belabor
- to work on excessively; to thrash soundly
- Carping
- tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way
- Coherent
- holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful
- Congeal
- to change from liquid to solid, thicken, to make inflexible or rigid
- emulate
- to imimtate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model
- Encomiun
- a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
- Eschew
- to avoid, shun, keep away from
- Germane
- relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting
- Insatiable
- so great or demanding as not to be satisfied
- Intransigent
- refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
- Invidious
- offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment
- Largesse
- generosity in giving, lavish or bountiful contributions
- Reconnaissance
- a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination
- Substantiate
- to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to
- Taciturn
- habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little
- Temporize
- to stall or act evasivel in order to gain time, avoide a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise
- Tenable
- capable of being held or defended
- Accost
- to approach and speak to first; to confont in a challenging or agrgressive way
- Animadversion
- a comment indicating strong criticism or disapproval
- Avid
- desirous of somethign to the point of greed,; intensely eager
- Brackish
- having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink
- Celerity
- swiftness, rapidity or motion or action
- Devious
- straying or wandering from a starighyt or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way
- Gambit
- in chess, an opening move that involves rise or sacrifice or a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type
- Halcyon
- a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher : (adj.) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent
- Histrionic
- pertaining to actors and their techniques; theatrical, artificial; melodramatic
- Incendiary
- deliberately setting or causing fires; designed to start fires; tending to stir up strife or rebellion; (n.) one who deliberately sets fires, arsonist;one who causes strife
- Maelstron
- a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction
- Myopic
- nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment
- Overt
- open, not hiden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized
- Pejorative
- tending to make worse; expressing disapproval or dispargement, deorgatory, deprecatory, belittling
- Propriety
- the state of beign proper, appropriateness
- Sacrilege
- improper or disrespectful treatment of something held sacred
- Summarily
- without delay or formality; briefly, concisely
- Sullpliant
- asking humbly and earnestly; one who makes a request humbly and earnestly
- Talisman
- an object that serves as a charm or is believe to confer magical powers
- Undulate
- to move in waves or with a wavelike motion
- Articulate
- to pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; to connect by a joint or joints;(adj.)expressed clearly and forcefully
- Cavort
- to romp or prance around exuberantly; to make merry
- Credence
- belief, mental acceptance
- Decry
- to condemn, express strong disapproval; to officially depreciate
- Dissemble
- to disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false impression
- distraught
- very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict
- Eulogy
- a formal statement of commendation; high praise
- Evince
- to display clearly, to make evident
- Exhume
- to remove from a grave; to bring to light
- Feckless
- lacking in spirit and strength; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable
- Murky
- dark and gloomy, obscure; lacking in clarity, and precision
- Nefarious
- wicked, depraved, devoid or moral standards
- Piquant
- stimiulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealingly provocative
- Primordial
- developed or created at the very beginning; going back to the ancient times or earliest stage; basic
- Propinquity
- nearness in a place or time; kinship
- Unwonted
- not usual or expected; not in character
- Utopian
- founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical
- Verbiage
- language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness; a manner of expression
- Verdant
- green in ting or color; immature in experience or judgment
- Viscous
- having a gelatinous or gluey quiality, lacking in easy movemetn or fluidity
- Atrophy
- the wasting away of a body organ or tissue; any progressive decline or failure; (v.) to waste away
- Bastion
- a fortified place, stronghold
- Concord
- a state of agreement, harmony, unanimity; a treaty, pact, covenant
- Consummate
- complete or perfect in the highest degree; (v.) to bring to a state of completion
- Disarray
- disorder, confusion
- Exigency
- urgency, pressure; urgent demaand
- Flotsam
- floating debris; homeless
- Frentic
- frenzied, hightly agitated
- Glean
- to gather bit by bith; to gather small quantities of grain left n a field by the reapers
- Grouse
- a type of game bird; a compaint
- Incarcerate
- to imprison
- Incumbentry
- obligatory, required;(n.)one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of
- Jocular
- humorous, jesting, jolly
- Ludicrous
- ridiculous, laughable, obsurd
- Mordant
- biting or caustic in thought, manner, or style; sharply or bitterly harsh
- Nettle
- a prickly or stinging plant; (v.)to arouse displeasure, impatience
- Pecuniary
- consisting of or measure in money
- Pusillanimous
- contemptibly cowardly or mean-spritited
- Recumbent
- in a reclining position
- Stratagem
- a scheme to outwit or decieve an opponent or to gain an end
- Acuity
- sharpness
- Delineate
- to portray, sketch, or describe in a ccurate and vivide detail
- Depraved
- marked by evil and corruption, devoid or moral principles
- Enervate
- to weaken or lessen the mental, moral, or physical vigor of;enfeeble, hamstring
- Esoteric
- intended for or udnerstood by only a select few, private
- Fecund
- fruitful in offspring or vegetaion; intellectually productive
- Fiat
- an arbitrary order or decree; a command or act of will or conscieousness
- Figment
- a fabrication of the mind; an arbitrary notion
- Garner
- to acqauire as the result or effort; to gather and store away
- Hallow
- to set apart as holy or sacred; to honor greatly
- Idiosyncrasy
- a peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify
- Ignominy
- shame and disgrace
- Mundane
- earthly, worldly, relating to practical and material affairs; concerned with what is ordinary
- Nuance
- a subtle or slight variation ( as in color)
- Overweening
- conceithed, presumptuous; excessive, immoderate
- Penchant
- a strong attraction or inclination
- Reputed
- according to reputation or general belief; having widespread acceptance and good reputation
- Sophistry
- reasoning that seems plausible but is actually unsound, a fallacy
- Sumptuous
- costly, rich, magnificent
- Ubiquitous
- present or existing everywhere
- Abject
- degraded, base, contemptible; cringing, servile; complete and unrelieved
- Agnostic
- one who believes that nothing can be known about God; a skeptic
- Complicity
- involvement in wrongdoing; the state of being an accomplice
- Derelict
- someone or something that is abandoned or neglected; (adj.) left abandoned
- Diatribe
- bitter and prolinged verbal attack
- Effigy
- a crude image of a despised person
- Equity
- the state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial; fair and equal treatment
- Inane
- silly, empty of meaning or value
- Indictment
- the act of accusing; a formal accusation
- Indubitable
- certain, not to be doubted or denied
- Intermittent
- stopping and beginning agian, sporadic
- Moot
- open to discussion and debate, unrevolved; (v) to bring up for discussion
- Motif
- a principal idea, feature, theme, or element: a repeated or dominant figure in a design
- Neophyte
- a new convert, beginner, novice
- Perpicacity
- keenness in observing and understanding
- Plenary
- complete in all aspects or essentials; absolute; attended by all qualified members
- Surveillance
- a watch kept over a person; careful, close, and disciplined observation
- Sylvan
- pertaining to or characteristic of forests; wooded, woody
- Testy
- easily irritated
- Travesty
- a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation; a disguise especially the clothing of the opposite sex; (v.) to ridicule by imitating in a broad or burlesque fashion
- Allay
- to calm or pacify, set to rest; to lessen or relieve
- Bestial
- beastlike; beastly, brutal
- Convivial
- festive, sociable, having fun together
- Coterie
- a circle of acquaintances; a close-knit, often exclusive, group of people with a common interest
- Counterpart
- a person or thing closely resembling or corresponding to another
- Demur
- (v.) to object or take exception to; (n.) an objection
- Effrontary
- shameless boldness, impudence
- Embellish
- to decorate, adorn, touch up; improve by adding details
- Ephemeral
- lasting only a short time, short-lived
- Felicitous
- appropriate, apt, well chosen; marked by well-being or good fortune, happy
- Furtive
- done slyly or stealthily, sneaky, secret, shifty; stolen
- Garish
- glaring; tastelessly showy or overdecorated in a vulgar or offensive way
- Illusory
- misleading, deceptive; lacking in or not based on reality
- Indigent
- needy, impoverished
- Inordinate
- far too great, exceeding reasonable limits, excessive
- Jettison
- to cast overboard, get rid of as unnecessary or burdensome
- Misanthrope
- a person who hates or despises people
- Pertinacious
- very persistent; holding firmly to a course of action or a set of beliefs; hard to get rid of, refusing to be put off or denied
- Picayune
- of little value or importance, paltry, measly; concerned with trifling matters, small-minded
- Raiment
- clothing, garments