Magoosh 5

JSingh (India)
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  1. spendthrift
    someone who spends money freely or wastefully
  2. prodigality
    the trait of spending extravagantly
  3. sybarite
    a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
  4. pecuniary
    relating to or involving money
  5. impecunious
    not having enough money to pay for necessities
  6. insolvent
    unable to meet or discharge financial obligations
  7. affluent
    having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
  8. profligate
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  9. prodigal
    recklessly wasteful
  10. parable
    a short moral story
  11. squander
    spend thoughtlessly; throw away
  12. destitute
    poor enough to need help from others
  13. posterity
    all future generations
  14. decadent
    relating to indulgence in something pleasurable
  15. provenance
    where something originated or started
  16. avarice
    reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
  17. conquistador
    a 16th-century Spanish conqueror of Peru and Mexico
  18. plunder
    steal goods; take as spoils
  19. cupidity
    extreme greed for material wealth
  20. cherub
    an angel portrayed as a winged child
  21. defray
    bear the expenses of
  22. burgeon
    grow and flourish
  23. magnanimous
    noble and generous in spirit
  24. stipend
    a sum of money allotted on a regular basis
  25. pittance
    an inadequate payment
  26. beam
    express with a happy face or smile
  27. smug
    marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction
  28. dupe
    fool or hoax
  29. charlatan
    a flamboyant deceiver
  30. swindle
    deprive of by deceit
  31. decry
    express strong disapproval of
  32. bilk
    cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
  33. mulct
    money extracted as a penalty
  34. summit
    the top or extreme point of something
  35. acme
    the highest point of something
  36. culmination
    a concluding action
  37. untoward
    not in keeping with accepted standards of what is proper
  38. tenure
    the term during which some position is held
  39. upbraid
    express criticism towards
  40. braiding
    trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains
  41. berate
    censure severely or angrily
  42. reprimand
    an act or expression of criticism and censure
  43. reproach
    express criticism towards
  44. chide
    scold or reprimand severely or angrily
  45. castigate
    inflict severe punishment on
  46. underwrite
    guarantee financial support of
  47. overweening
    presumptuously arrogant
  48. fathom
    come to understand
  49. truculent
    defiantly aggressive
  50. fusillade
    rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms
  51. construe
    make sense of; assign a meaning to
  52. hawkish
    disposed to warfare or hard-line policies
  53. vehement
    marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions
  54. denounce
    speak out against
  55. badger
    sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws
  56. pester
    annoy persistently
  57. loafer
    a person who is idle and does no work
  58. hound
    a dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears
  59. treacherous
    dangerously unstable and unpredictable
  60. dog
    a canine domesticated by man since prehistoric times
  61. placid
    calm and free from disturbance
  62. bovine
    any of various wild or domestic cattle
  63. equanimity
    steadiness of mind under stress
  64. cow
    female of domestic cattle
  65. ferret
    a small domesticated mammal with a flexible, elongated body
  66. knack
    a special way of doing something
  67. incumbency
    a duty that is incumbent upon you
Created on Thu Aug 29 11:29:26 EDT 2013 (updated Sat Aug 31 09:24:51 EDT 2013)

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