(adj.) able to get and retain ideas or information; concered with acquiring wealth or property

SYONONYMS:  greedy,  grasping,  avaricious,  retentive

ANTONYMS:  altruistic,  unretentive

(v.) To claim or take without right

SYNONYMS:  expropriate,  usurp,  commandeer

ANTONYMS:  relinquish,  renounce,  abdicate,  abandon

(adj.) Hackneyed, trite, commonplace

SYNONYMS:  stale,  insipid

ANTONYMS:  fresh,  novel,  original,  new

(v.) To work on excessively; to thrash soundly

SYNONMS:  overwork

(adj.) Tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way;  (n.) petty, nagging criticism

SYNONYMS:  (adj.)  nit-pricking,  caviling

ANTONYMS:  (adj.)  approving,  uncritical