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pelf

nounCommon GRE wordMore P words

money or riches regarded with contempt or as ill-gotten

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Pelf in a sentence

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He scorned their pelf, refusing any reward gained through deceit.

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Antonyms
poverty

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Verbal · Text Completion

The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.

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Pelf (noun) means money or riches regarded with contempt or as ill-gotten
Here is pelf used in an example sentence: "He scorned their pelf, refusing any reward gained through deceit."
Common synonyms for pelf include lucre, mammon, riches.
Antonyms of pelf include poverty.
Pelf is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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