GRE Word List
CUPIDITY
inordinate desire for wealth : avarice
The meaning of the word cupidity is inordinate desire for wealth : avarice.
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| effectuate | to cause or bring about (something) : to put (something) into effect or operation : effect |
| buoyant | having buoyancy |
| malapropos | in an inappropriate or inopportune way |
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| gross | glaringly noticeable usually because of inexcusable badness or objectionableness |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| reprise | a musical repetition: |
| multifarious | having or occurring in great variety : diverse |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
| cognate | of the same or similar nature : generically alike |