GRE Word List
RAPACIOUS
excessively grasping or covetous
The meaning of the word rapacious is excessively grasping or covetous.
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|---|---|
| feint | something feigned |
| provocative | serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate |
| corollary | a proposition (see proposition |
| larder | a place where food is stored : pantry |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| sap | the fluid part of a plant |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| innuendo | an oblique allusion : hint |
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