Mercenary 1100 Words You Need Week 43 Day 3 Mercenary 1100 Words You Need Week 43 Day 3 / mɜs ə n ə ri/ (adj & noun) only interested in the money that you can get in one way or another, motivated only by money, acquisitive, greedy, grasping, avaricious, covetous, a soldier who fights for…
Penury 1100 Words You Need Week 36 Day 4 Penury 1100 Words You Need Week 36 Day 4 /ˈpen.jʊ.ri/ US /-jʊr.i/ (noun) extreme poverty, neediness, indigence, pennilessness, destitution, impecuniousness, impoverishment, pauperism, privation, beggary Dr. Raja made his foster parents proud conquering penury all through his years at the Karur Municipal School and the Government Arts…
Pittance 1100 Words You Need Week 34 Day 4 Pittance 1100 Words You Need Week 34 Day 4 /ˈpɪt.ənts/ US /ˈpɪţ-/ (noun) a very small amount of money, particularly as your salary or income, nominal sum of money, inadequate amount of money, next to nothing, nothing, subsistence wage, small change, nickels and dimes, trifle, chicken…
Avarice 1100 Words You Need Avarice 1100 Words You Need Week 28 Day 4 with synonyms, antonyms, authentic examples and flashcards for GRE, TOEFL & IELTS /ˈæv.ər.ɪs/ (noun) an extremely strong desire to have more wealth, greed, cupidity, greed for wealth, greediness, materialism, covetousness, acquisitiveness, avidity, avariciousness If you remember being taught in grammar school…
Lucrative 1100 Words You Need Lucrative 1100 Words You Need /ˈluː.krə.tɪv/ (adj) (of a business or job) making a lot of money or profit, profitable, advantageous, making making, producing profit and wealth, well-paid, rewarding, worthwhile, beneficial, productive, prolific Getting jobs as a freelancer is no more difficult than getting a regular job. Many often wonder…
The Money’s Paw The Money’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs Available in the public domain at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ Part I. Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas about…
The Goose With the Golden Eggs The Goose With the Golden Eggs Available in the public domain through Gutenberg Project One day a countryman going to the nest of his Goose found there an egg all yellow and glittering. When he took it up it was as heavy as lead and he was going to…
Materialism 1100 Words You Need Materialism 1100 Words You Need /məˈtɪə.ri.ə.lɪ.zəm/ (noun) an obsession with material things and ignoring the spiritual dimension of life, greed, greediness, acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness Materialism is a form of philosophical monism that holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental states…
The Rocking-horse Winner The Rocking-horse Winner There was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck. She married for love, and the love turned to dust. She had boney children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could not love them. They looked…
Opulence 1100 Words You Need Opulence 1100 Words You Need /ˈɒpjʊl(ə)ns,ˈɒpjʊləns/ (noun) wealth and riches, affluence, luxury, sumptuousness, prosperity, lavishness, abundance, fortune, so much money Opulence is much more than a collection of assets. It’s a journey fueled by vision, passion, courage and drive, on a constant quest to shift horizons. To reach emotional fulfillment…