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With the rise of the Occupy Wall Street movement there has been an awakening about money and how few people own most of the world’s wealth. This group has been coined the 1% and there are no doubts that these people are pecunious (rolling in dough). In fact, many of them are centimillionaires (worth more than a $100 million).

Now, in order to be a pecunious individual you need to have a chrematistic (occupied in the pursuit of wealth) yet quaestuary (profit seeking) attitude.

The chrematistic people who spend every moment they can in the pursuit of wealth  are nummamorous. (Latin: nummus = coin and amourous = love). There are two other ways to describe these people, plutolatry and plutomania.

Many corporations do not care about how they profit, and there’s no shortage of proof. These are driven by people who quomodocunquize – they make money any way they can.  Sir Thomas Urquhart was a Scottish writer and in 1652 he wrote, "Those quomodocunquizing clusterfists and rapacious varlets." He was possibly referring to some unscrupulous hordarians who practice latrocination.

• clusterfist: a miser or a tightwad
• hordrian: a miser or tightwad
• rapacious: overly greedy
• varlets: were attendants in the 1600’s
• latrocination: means highway robbery; stealing the shirt off someone’s back
  

In this consumption-focused world many tend to suffer from emacity (an itch to buy or spend money). When emacity becomes an uncontrollable desire then that person officially becomes an oniomaniac.  

There’s never a shortage of new words that we can use to enhance our daily lives. They can be fun – and at times tossing them into a conversation can really impress, or baffle others.

For the logophile (lover of words), I finish off with a few more words for you to have fun with!

• defalcation: misappropriation of funds by the person or agency entrusted with them
• intrapreneur: an employee in a large company who has the freedom to create or refine products
• jeofail: a costly mistake make by a lawyer while in court
• larging: prodigal spending
• pismirism: saving every penny possible
• quiddler: an employee who tends not to work – but looks busy
• rouleau: a cylinder of coins rolled up in paper
• snup: to quickly grab what another is getting rid of or selling for a low price
• sportulary: dependent on handouts