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Meaning of Rapacity | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ɹəˈpæ.sɪ.ti

Definitions

The quality of being rapacious; voracity.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

العربية الجشع
Български алчност
Ελληνικά αρπακτικότητα
Suomi saaliinhimo
Français rapacité
Română rapacitate
Українська жадібність

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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