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| (Adj) Able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property |
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| (v) to claim or take without right |
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| (Adj) hackneyed, trite, commonplace |
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| (v) to work on excessively; to thrash soundly |
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| (adj) tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairspliting way: (n) petty, nagging criticism |
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| (adj) holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful |
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| (v) to change from solid to liquid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid |
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| (v) to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model |
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| (n) a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute |
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| (v) to avoid, shun, keep away from |
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| (adj) relevant, appropriate,apropos, fitting |
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| (adj) so great or demanding as not to be satisfied |
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| (adj) refusing to compromise, irreconcilable |
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| (adj) offensive, hateful, tending to cause bitterness and resentment |
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| (n) generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions |
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| (n) a survey made for military purposes; any kind of prelimitary inspection or examination |
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| (v) to establish by evidence, prove, to give concrete or substantial form to |
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| (adj) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little |
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| (v) to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a comfrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise |
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| (adj) capable of being held or defended |
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| (v) to approach and speak first; to confront in a challenging or aggressive way |
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| (n) a comment indicating strong criticism or dissaproval |
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| (adj) desirous of something to the point of greed; intensely eager |
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| (adj)having a salty taste and unpleasant to drink |
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| (n) swiftness, rapidity of motion or action |
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| (adj) straying or wandering from a straight or direct course; done or acting in a shifty or underhanded way |
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| (n) in chess, an opening more that involves risk or sacrifice of a minor piece in order to gain a later advantage; any opening move of this type |
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| (n) a legendary bird identified with the kingfisher; (adj) of or relating to the halcyon; calm, peaceful; happy, golden; prosperous, affluent |
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| (adj) pertaining to actors and their tecniques, theatrical, artificial, melodramatic |
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| (adj) 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 |
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| (n) a whirlpool of great size and violence; a situation resembling a whirlpool in violence and destruction |
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| (adj) nearsighted; laking a broad, realistic view of a situation, lacking foresight or discernment |
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| (adj) open, not hidden, expressed or revealed in a way that is easily recognized |
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| (adj) tending to make worst; expressing dissapproval or disparagement, derogatory, deprecatory, belittling |
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| (n) the state of being proper, appropriateness; (pl) standards of what is proper or socially acceptable |
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| (n) improper or disrespectful treatment treatment of something held sacred |
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| (adj) without delay or formality; briefly, concisely |
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| (adj) asking hunbly and earnestly; (n) one who makes a request humbly and earnestly,a petitioner, suitor |
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| (n) an object that serves as a charm or is belived to confer magical powers, an amulet, fetish |
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| (v) to move in waves or with a wave like motion; to have a wavelike appearance or form |
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| (v) to pronounce distinctly; to express well in words; to connect by a joint or joints; (adj) expressed clearly and forcefully; able to employ language clearly and forcefully |
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| (v) romp or prance around exuberantly; to make merry |
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| (n) belief, mental acceptance |
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| (v) to condemn, express strong disapproval; to official depreciate |
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| (v) to disguise or conceal, deliberately give a false impression |
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| (adj) very much agitated or upset as a result of emotion or mental conflict |
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| (n) a formal statement of commendation; high praise |
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| (v) to display clearly, to make evident, to provoke |
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| (v) to remove from a grave; to bring to light |
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| (adj) lacking in spirit and strenght; ineffective, weak; irresponsible, unreliable |
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| (adj) dark and gloomy, obscure; lackking in clarity and precision |
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| (adj) wicked, depraved, devoid of moral standard |
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| (adj) stimulating to the taste or mind; spicy, pungent; appealing provocative |
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| (adj) developed or created at the very beginning; going back to the most ancient times or earliest stage; fundamental, basic |
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| (n) nearness in place or time; kinship |
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| (adj) not as usual or expected; not in character |
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| (adj) founded upon or involving a visionary view of an ideal world; impractical |
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| (n) language that is too wordy or inflated in proportion to the sense or content, wordiness; a manner of expression |
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| (adj) green in tent or color; immature in experience or judgement |
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| (adj) having a gelatinous or gluey quality, lacking in easy movement or fluidity |
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