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Word: Envy
Speech Type: Noun
Middle English (also in the sense ‘hostility, enmity’): from Old French envie (noun), envier (verb), from Latin invidia, from invidere ‘regard maliciously, grudge’, from in- ‘into’ + videre ‘to see’
ˈɛnvi
a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck
Short Definition:desire for another's possessions etc.
Examples:- she felt a twinge of envy for the people on board
Word: Envy
Speech Type: Verb
ˈɛnvi
desire to have a quality, possession, or other desirable thing belonging to (someone else)
Short Definition:feel envy of
Examples:- he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends
- I envy Jane her happiness
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