GRE Word List
RAPACIOUS
excessively grasping or covetous
The meaning of the word rapacious is excessively grasping or covetous.
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| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| herald | an official at a tournament of arms (see arm |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| squander | to spend extravagantly or foolishly : dissipate |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| trek | to make one's way arduously |
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