they are avaricious and will do anything for money
casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields
a grasping old miser
grasping commercialism
greedy for money and power
grew richer and greedier
prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees
Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for prehensile
PRE(before)+HENS+ILE
before the hens can escape we have to grasp & hold them.
From comprehensible to get hold of idea or concept.Prehensile is get hold or grasp things.
PreHensile..Concentrate on Hensile.. Sounds like Tensile..Now Tensile means Capable of Being stretched, similarly lets say hensile means capable of being held or grasped..!
Root word
prehend/ /prehens/ /preg/ = to grasp; to take; to seize e.g. comprehensible
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