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Rapacity

Noun CEFR B2
ɹəˈpæ.sɪ.ti

Definitions

The quality of being rapacious; voracity.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Françaisrapacité
العربيةالجشع
8 more languages
Българскиалчност
Românărapacitate
Українськажадібність

Examples

Animals of the hare kind, like all others that feed entirely upon vegetables, are inoffenſive and timorous. As Nature furniſhes them vvith a moſt abundant ſupply, they have not that rapacity after food remarkable in ſuch as are often ſtinted in their proviſion.”
“A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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