GRE Word List
CUPIDITY
inordinate desire for wealth : avarice
The meaning of the word cupidity is inordinate desire for wealth : avarice.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| encroachment | to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| effrontery | shameless boldness : insolence |
| leery | suspicious |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| cozen | to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery |
| trample | tramp |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| stoke | to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel |