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(ADJ) able to get and retain ideas or information concerned with acquiring wealth or property
Syn:greedy,grasping,avarious,retentive
Ant:altruistic,unretentive |
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(V)to claim or to take without right
Syn:Expropriate,usurp,commandeer
Ant:relinquish,renounce,abdicate,abandon |
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(ADJ) hackneyed,trite,commonplace
Syn:stale,insipid
Ant:fresh,novel,orignal,new |
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(V) to work excessively;to thrash soundly
Syn:overwork |
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(adj) tending to find fault ,especially in petty ,nasty or hairsplitting way
(N)petty,nagging,criticism
SYN:(Adj)nitpicking,caviling
Ant:(adj)approving,uncritical |
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(Adj) holding or sticking together making a logical whole,comprehensible,meaningful
(Syn)connected,unified,consistant,cohesive
(Ant)muddled,choatic,disjointed
Unit 1
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