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| A formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute. The ---- due to the brave. |
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Holding or sticking together; making a logical whole; comprehensible, meaningful.
An ----- explanation. |
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To work on excessively; to thrash soundly.
----- the obvious. |
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To avoid, shun, keep away from.
----- bad habits. |
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Able to get and to retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property.
a(n) ---- society. |
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To imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model.
------ a great writer. |
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To claim or take without right.
----- royal privileges to themselves. |
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Hackneyed, trite, commonplace
------ dialogue |
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| A strong denunciation; the act or state of stripping or wearing off the skin. |
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To change from liquid to solid, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid.
as the drop of blood slowly ----- |
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Tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty or hairsplitting way;; petty , naggy criticism.
the ----- of the critics. |
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To establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or substantial form to.
unable to ---- the claim. |
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to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise.
tended to ----- rather than act. |
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Generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions.
the beneficiary of their ----- |
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Capable of being held or defended.
a(n) ----- theory. |
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So great or demanding that it cannot be satisfied.
a(n) ------- appetite for gossip. |
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A survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination.
a(n) ------ in force |
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relevant, appropriate, apropos.
not --------- to the discussion. |
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To divide and spread out like branches; to separate into divisions.
----- in all directions. |
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Refusing to compromise, irreconcilable.
A(n)-------- attitude. |
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Habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little
a dour and --------- personalaty. |
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Offensive, hateful; tending to cause bitterness and resentment.
a(n) ---- comparison. |
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