Acquisitive
ADJ: Able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property
Arrogate
V: To claim or take without right
Banal
ADJ: Hackneyed, trite, commonplace
Belabor
V: To work on excessively; to thrash soundly
Carping
ADJ: Tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way; N: petty, nagging criticism
Coherent
ADJ: Holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful
Congeal
V: To change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid
Emulate
V: To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model
Encomium
N: A formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute
Eshew
V: To avoid, shun, keep away from
Germane
ADJ: Relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting
Insatiable
ADJ: So great or demanding so as not to be satisfied
Intransigent
ADJ: Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable
Invidious
ADJ: Offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment
Largesse
N: Generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributors
Reconnaissance
N: A survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination
Substantiate
V: To establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to
Taciturn
ADJ: Habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little
Temporize
V: To stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise
Tenable
ADJ: Capable of being held or defended