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When you are acquisitive, you are driven to pursue and own wealth and possessions—often in a greedy fashion.
Affluence is the state of having a lot of money and many possessions, granting one a high economic standard of living.
If your behavior or manner is altruistic, you show you care more about other people and their interests than you care about yourself.
Avarice is the extremely strong desire to have a lot of money and possessions.
A benefaction is a charitable contribution of money or assistance that someone gives to a person or organization.
If you describe someone as benign, they are kind, gentle, and harmless.
Depravity is behavior that is immoral, corrupt, or evil.
Depredation can be the act of destroying or robbing a village—or the overall damage that time can do to things held dear.
If you refer to the enormity of a situation, problem, or event, you mean that it is very evil or morally offensive; this word has nothing to do with physical size.
Largess is the generous act of giving money or presents to a large number of people.
Lavish praise, giving, or a meal is rich, plentiful, or very generous; it can sometimes border on being too much.
If someone exhibits magnanimity towards another, they show them kindness and noble generosity, especially after defeating them in battle or after having been treated badly by them.
Something or someone that is maleficent deliberately tries to cause harm or evil.
A mercenary person is one whose sole interest is in earning money.
A misanthrope is someone who hates and mistrusts people.
Narcissism is the habit of always thinking about yourself and constantly admiring your own appearance or qualities.
A notorious person is well-known by the public at large; they are usually famous for doing something bad.
If you are oblivious to something that is happening, you do not notice it.
A parsimonious person is not willing to give or spend money.
Philanthropy is unselfish support in the form of donating money, work, or gifts to positive social purposes; philanthropy is also overall love for humans in general.
If you say that you’ve received a pittance, you mean that you received a small amount of something—and you know that you deserved more.
When you plunder, you forcefully take or rob others of their possessions, usually during times of war, natural disaster, or other unrest.
When you procure something, you obtain or get it in some fashion.
When you proffer something to someone, you offer it up or hold it out to them to take.
A profusion of something is a very large quantity or variety of it.
To ransack a place is to thoroughly loot or rob items from it; it can also mean to look through something thoroughly by examining every bit of it.
When someone stints, they are not generous; rather, they withhold support or the providing of something that another person needs.
A troglodyte also refers to prehistoric peoples who once lived in caves.
Adj.
munificent
myoo-NIF-uh-suhnt
Context
The principal at our school likes to announce when a munificent or highly generous supporter has made a large donation. I’m not sure whether he is trying to acknowledge kind, munificent acts of giving, or whether he is attempting to shame those who do not support the school. I would like to be more munificent or giving with money than I am, but I don’t have the funds to be as charitable as I’d like to be.
Money Sufficient Because of the munificent donation from Mr. Googolplex, we now have sufficientmoney to build our orphanage.
Examples
Munificent (and, possibly, narcissistic) alumni have donated millions of dollars for the privilege of having their names permanently etched in stone at some of the world's finest business schools.
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The Economist
The new flow of corporate bucks and now the torrent of cash from high-profile individuals like [Ted] Turner and George Soros have tended to submerge what used to be the main force in the American philanthropic world, the foundations. There are now more than 40,000 of them in this country, and they are still hugely munificent, but their impact and even their reputation are not what they used to be.
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Newsweek
