PPT-Acquisitive ( adj )

Acquisitive adj Able to get and retain ideas or information concerned with acquiring wealth or property Syn greedy grasping avaricious retentive Ant altruistic unretentive acquiring stuff. 1085494 and a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales no 04023541 email Independence Civitas Institute for the Study of Civil Society is a registered educational charity No 1085494 and a company limited by guarantee No 04023541 Acquirers:. New . evidence on the drivers of acquirer’s announcement returns in corporate takeovers. Ludovic . Phalippou – Oxford University. Fangming. . Xu. – Bristol University. Huainan Zhao – . In an . acquisitive. society, there is a great deal of emphasis on buying and selling.. Acquisitive. What do you think . acquisitive . means . based on the context?. Are there any parts of the word that you . Warily. Definition: cautiously, carefully. Part of Speech: adverb. Sentence: As the family enter the haunted house the children walked . warily. behind their parents.. Etymology: comes from a Middle English word waer meaning alert.. Acquirers:. New . evidence on the drivers of acquirer’s announcement returns in corporate takeovers. Ludovic . Phalippou – Oxford University. Fangming. . Xu. – Bristol University. Huainan Zhao – . to be satisfied. a. rrogate. To claim or take . w. ithout right. coherent. Holding or . s. ticking together. emulate. To imitate. encomium. Formal praise. carping. Petty, nagging. criticism. invidious. Syn. : greedy, grasping, avaricious, retentive. Ant: altruistic, . unretentive. **. acquiring. stuff. Arrogate (v). To claim or take without right. Syn. : expropriate, usurp, commandeer. Ant: relinquish, renounce, abdicate, abandon. Vocabulary Level G Unit 1 ACQUISITIVE Connotation: Negative Etymology:1630s , "owned through acquisition," from L.  acquisitivus ,   of acquirere . Meaning "given to acquisition,  avaricious "is nce. “A captive audience.” Recruiting informants within police custody blocks.. Richard Cooper. Objectives. Why do people offer information?. The cells as a recruiting ground. The longevity of recruitments.