Vocabulary - Word Group 28

Word Group : Greedy

Sr. No	Word	Meaning	Sentence
1	Avaricious	Having or showing an extreme greed for wealth or material gain	An avaricious manipulative woman
2	Covetous	Having or showing a great desire to possess something belonging to someone else	She fingered the linen with covetous hands
3	Mercenary	1.     Primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics 2.     A professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army	1.     She’s nothing but a mercenary little gold-digger 2.     He had planned to seize power with the aid of group of mercenaries
4	Miserly	Of or characteristic of a miser	His miserly great-uncle proved to be worth nearly $1 million
5	Penurious	1.     Extremely poor; poverty-stricken 2.     Unwilling to spend money; mean	1.     A penurious old tramp 2.     His stingy and penurious wife
6	Rapacious	Aggressively greedy or grasping	Rapacious landlords
7	Venal	Showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery; corrupt	Local customs officers are notoriously venal

Vocabulary - Word Group 28

Word Group : Gaps / Openings

Sr. No	Word	Meaning	Sentence
1	Abatement	1.     The action of abating or being abated; ending or subsiding 2.     The reduction or removal of nuisance	1.     This trend shows no sign of abatement 2.     It was resolved to serve an abatement notice
2	Aperture	1.     An opening, hole or gap 2.     A space through which light passes in an optical or photographic instrument, especially the variable opening by which light enters a camera	1.     The bell ropes passed through apertures in the ceiling 2.      A refracting telescope with an aperture of 3 inches
3	Fissure	1.     A long, narrow opening or line of breakages made by cracking or splitting, especially in rock or earth 2.     A state of incompatibility or disagreement 3.     Split or crack (something) to form a long, narrow opening.	1.     The bacteria survive around the vents or fissures in the deep ocean floor 2.     A fissure between philosophy and reality 3.     Low cliffs of fissured Silurian rock
4	Hiatus	1.     A pause or break in continuity in a sequence or activity 2.     A break between two vowels coming together but not in the same syllable, as in the ear and cooperate	1.     There was a brief hiatus in the war with France 2.     The diaphragmatic hiatus was larger than necessary
5	Interregnum	A period when normal government is suspended, especially between successive reigns or regimes	The democratic regime proved to be a short-lived interregnum between dictatorships
6	Interstice	An intervening space, especially a very small one	Sunshine filtered through the interstices of the arching trees
7	Lull	1.     Calm or send to sleep, typically with soothing sounds or movements 2.     A temporary interval of quiet or lack of activity	1.     The rhythm of the boat lulled her to sleep 2.     For two days there had been a lull in the fighting
8	Orifice	An opening, particularly one in the body such as a nostril or the anus	The mouth is a bodily orifice
9	Rent	1.     A tenant’s regular payment to a landlord for the use of property or land 2.     Pay someone for the use of something	1.     I can not afford to pay the rent on this flat 2.     They rented a house together in Sussex
10	Respite	1.     A short period of rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant 2.     Postpone (a sentence, obligation, etc.)	1.     The refugee encampment will provide some respite from the suffering 2.     The execution was only respited a few months
11	rift	1.     A crack, split, or break in something 2.     A serious break in friendly relations 3.     Form fissures or breaks, especially through large-scale faulting; move apart	1.     The wind had torn open a rift in the clouds 2.     The rift between the two branches of the legal profession 3.     A fragment of continental crust which rifted away from eastern Australia