This week’s theme
Usage examples that are food for thought

This week’s words
parturition
avarice
panacea
scepter
verity

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(AV-uh-ris)

MEANING:

noun: An extreme desire for wealth or material gain.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin avaritia (greed), from avarus (greedy), from avere (to crave). Earliest documented use: 1386.

USAGE:

“My friends are my ‘estate’. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them.”
Thomas H. Johnson (ed.); The Letters of Emily Dickinson; Harvard University Press; 1958.

See more usage examples of avarice in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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