Vocabulary Power Plus

to work on excessively; to thrash soundly

• banal

• belabor

• carping

• germane

refusing to compromise; irreconcilable

• intransigent

• insatiable

• congeal

• belabor

able to get and retain ideas or information; concerned with acquiring wealth or property

• carping

• eschew

• acquisitive

• germane

habitually silent or quiet

• eschew

• germane

• taciturn

• intransigent

to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model

• emulate

• banal

• belabor

• eschew

capable of being held or defended.

• emulate

• substantiate

• largesse

• tenable

to claim without taking rights

• arrogate

• banal

• belabor

• temporize

to change from liquid to solid; thicken, make inflexbile

• encomium

• congeal

• germane

• intransigent

hackneyed; common place; trite

• arrogate

• banal

• coherent

• germane

tending to find fault in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way

• arrogate

• carping

• germane

• taciturn