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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)
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"
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"
Treed
- verb - chase an animal up a tree; "the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it"; "her dog likes to tree squirrels"
- force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape
- forced to turn and face attackers; "a stag at bay"; "she had me cornered between the porch and her car"; "like a trapped animal"
- plant with trees; "this lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer"
- stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree
Tried
- adjective - examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process; "The jury had heard all the evidence"; "The case will be tried in California"
- give pain or trouble to; "I've been sorely tried by these students"
- make an effort or attempt; "He tried to shake off his fears"; "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"; "The police attempted to stop the thief"; "He sought to improve himself"; "She always seeks to do good in the world"
- melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities; "try the yak butter"; "render fat in a casserole"
- put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice; "Try on this sweater to see how it looks"
- put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of; "The football star was tried for the murder of his wife"; "The judge tried both father and son in separate trials"
- put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to; "This approach has been tried with good results"; "T
Trued
- verb - make level, square, balanced, or concentric; "true up the cylinder of an engine"
Urged
- verb - force or impel in an indicated direction; "I urged him to finish his studies"
- push for something; "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day"
- spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers"