Wednesday, April 14, 2010

GRE VOCB: “Pertaining to Money”

  1. Affluent (adj): abundant, wealthy
    Antonyms: Impecunious
  2. Capital (n): pertaining to wealth, most significant

  3. Destitute (adj): extremely poor and lacking the means to provide oneself.
  4. Embezzle (v): steal or misappropriate (money placed in one’s trust or under one’s control).

  5. Endow (v): provide or give or bequeath income or money to a person or organization

    Antonyms: Divest
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  6. Expenditure (n): payment or expense; out put.
    Antonyms: store up
  7. Extort (v): get money by threatening
  8. Hack: a writer of a news paper for money who does dishonest things.
    9 A. Haggle (v): dispute or bargain persistently, especially over a price


  9. Impecunious: indigent

    Antonyms: Affluent, wealthy

  10. Lucre (n): money, especially when gained dishonorably.

  11. Mercenary (adj): motivated solely by money or gain; primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics
    (n): a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign country.

  1. Mendicant (adj): given to begging; of or denoting a religious order originally dependent on alms.
    (n): a beggar
  2. Nouveau riche (n): people who have recently acquired wealth; newly rich
  3. Numismatics (n): the study or collection of coins, banknotes, and medals.

  4. Opulence (n): extreme wealth; luxuriousness; abundance
  5. Pecuniary (adj): pertaining to money
  6. Penury (n): severe poverty: stinginess
    Antonyms: Prodigality
  7. Plutocrat (n): a person whose powers derives from their wealth; wealthy person
  8. Plutocracy (n): ruled by rich people

  9. Venal (adj): mercenary; for the sake of money; capable of being bribed.

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