GRE Word List

RAPACIOUS

excessively grasping or covetous

The meaning of the word rapacious is excessively grasping or covetous.

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marredto ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil
quellto thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity
heraldan official at a tournament of arms (see arm
integralessential to completeness : constituent
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trekto make one's way arduously
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