Greed: A Dictionary for the Selfish
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Greed: A Dictionary for the Selfish
Surprisingly, it didn't claim every word in the OED (although if it could, it would). This pocket-sized dictionary swipes only the most worthy of syllables, as well as the reader's attention.
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Greed - Adams Media
An Introduction to
Greed
greed
(greed)
NOUN: Excessive desire, especially for wealth or possessions.
The seductive lure of avarice has left a bitter taste on the tongues of many: Midas quickly learns to rue his golden touch. King Ahab’s love of excess earns him a vineyard, but costs him his beloved Jezebel. And Macbeth’s lust for power leads him to regicide. The aching desire for more has led to the downfall of many an upright man, but the ways in which this sin reveals itself are abundant. The myriad dimensions of acquisitiveness, the most rapacious of sins, can be difficult to comprehend, but this dictionary of indulgence is your key to defining greed—in all its manifestations.
A
abduct
(ab-DUKT)
VERB: To take a person away secretly and illegally, often by use of force; to kidnap.
abscond
(ab-SKOND)
VERB: To depart quickly and in secret, especially to avoid criminal charges. To abscond is to secretly flee the consequences of one’s acts, particularly those acts leading to illicit gain.
accept
(ak-SEPT)
VERB: To take into possession.
accrete
(uh-KREET)
VERB: To accumulate or cause to become attached.
ache for
(AYK fohr)
VERB: A strong desire for something or someone.
acquire
(uh-KWYR)
VERB: To obtain something; to come into possession.
acquisitive
(uh-KWIZ-it-iv)
ADJECTIVE: A greedy tendency to acquire money or material things.
The king’s ACQUISITIVE nature required rooms upon rooms in the castle to be dedicated to the storage and display of his many treasures.
ad infinitum
(ad ihn-fi-NY-tuhm)
ADJECTIVE: Without end; literally, to infinity.
The phrase refers to things without end or to something that is limitless. In practical use, ad infinitum usually carries a sense of ironic overstatement.
addiction
(uh-DICKT-shunn)
NOUN: The state of being psychologically dependent on something or someone.
adopt
(uh-DOPT)
VERB: To accept or take as one’s own.
affluenza
(a-floo-EN-zuh)
NOUN: A word combining affluent and influenza, affluenza has come to stand for a disease that affects wealthy young people who have suddenly come into large sums of money.
amass
(uh-MASS)
VERB: To collect or gather quantities of materials or things over time.
amoral
(ay-MOR-uhl)
ADJECTIVE: Without moral discretion or standards. To be amoral is to act as though the distinctions of right and wrong are nonexistent. A person who is amoral is neither moral nor immoral.
annihilate
(uh-NY-uh-layt)
VERB: To completely destroy.
appetence
(AP-eh-tents)
NOUN: Intense longing or desire; a natural craving.
appetency
(AP-eh-ten-see)
NOUN: Strong, unwavering