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Greed
- noun - excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
- reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
Grind
- noun - an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- created by grinding; "grind designs into the glass bowl"
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- hard monotonous routine work
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together; "grate one's teeth in anger"
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic"
- shape or form by grinding; "grind lenses for glasses and cameras"
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground; "a coarse grind of coffee"
- work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
Irked
- verb - annoy
- irritate or vex; "It galls me that we lost the suit"
Orbed
- verb - move in an orbit; "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus"
Oread
- noun - (Greek mythology) one of the mountain nymphs
Pried
- verb - be nosey; "Don't pry into my personal matters!"
- make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry; "They pried the information out of him"
- search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office"
- to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open; "The burglar jimmied the lock": "Raccoons managed to pry the lid off the garbage pail"
Prodd
- - A crossbow. See Prod, 3.
Proud
- adjective - feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride; "proud parents"; "proud of his accomplishments"; "a proud moment"; "proud to serve his country"; "a proud name"; "proud princes"
- having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks"
Tread
- noun - a step in walking or running
- apply (the tread) to a tire
- brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center
- crush as if by treading on; "tread grapes to make wine"
- mate with; "male birds tread the females"
- put down or press the foot, place the foot; "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"; "step on the brake"
- structural member consisting of the horizontal part of a stair or step
- the grooved surface of a pneumatic tire
- the part (as of a wheel or shoe) that makes contact with the ground
- tread or stomp heavily or roughly; "The soldiers trampled across the fields"