acquisitive
able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or properity; greedy, grasping, avaricious, retentive
arrogate
to claim or take without right; expropriate, usurp, commandeer
banal
hackneyed, trite, commonplace; stale, insipid
belabor
to work on excessively; to thrash soundly; overwork
carping
tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; petty, nagging criticism; nit-picking, caviling
coherent
holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful; connected, unified, consistent, cohesive
congeal
to change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid; harden, jell, coagulate, solidify
emulate
to imitate with the intent of equally or surpassing the model; copy, mimic, rival, match, measure up to
encomium
a formal expression of praise, a livish tribute; panegyric, eulogy, commendation
eschew
to avoid, shun, keep away from; abstain from, steer clear of, forgo
germane
relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting; pertinent
insatiable
so great or demanding as not to be satisfied; unquenchable, ravenous, voracious
intransigent
refusing to compromise, irreconcilable; uncompromising, unyielding, obdurate
invidious
offensive, hateful, tending to cause bitterness and resentment; malicious, spiteful, preducial, perjorative
largesse
generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions; liverality, munificence, bounty
reconnaissance
a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination; scouting expedition
substantiate
to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to; verify, confirm, validate, authenticate
tacitum
habitaully silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little; tight-lipped, uncommunicative, laconic
temporize
to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise; hedge, dillydally, procrastinate
tenable
capable of being held or defended; defensible, justifiable, maintainable