[responsivevoice] avarice [/responsivevoice] [ av-er-is ]
The word of the day is ‘avarice.’
The word is a noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence.
No, the word is a noun. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Extreme greed
2. Greed for material gain.
3. Thrift
4. Greedy
1. Hindi – Lobh
2. Spanish – Avaricia
3. French – Avarice
4. Mandarin – Tānlán
1. I felt mortified, and the reproach of avarice hurt me deeply.
2. As soon as Terence saw the sovereigns all his Irish avarice was roused.
3. There is no limit to the moral baseness of the man of avarice.
4. The offspring of pride, and lust, and avarice, it is indigenous to the world.
5. The old jests about her avarice were repeated over and over again.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
avidity, covetousness, cupidity, frugality, greediness, miserliness, niggardliness, parsimony, penuriousness, rapacity, stinginess, thrift, grabbiness, penny-pinching, greed, acquisitiveness, rapaciousness, graspingness, materialism, mercenariness, meanness, money-grubbing, money-grabbing, grabbiness, pleonexia etc
Some antonyms of the word are:
generosity, philanthropy
Quotation:
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
John Maynard Keynes
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