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 |
|---|---|
| malcontent | a discontented person: |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| apiary | a place where bees are kept |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| parasite | an organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host (see host |
| glare | to shine with a harsh uncomfortably brilliant light |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |