USURIOUS

PRONUNCIATION: (yoo-ZHOOR-ee-uhs)

MEANING: adjective: Charging excessive rates, especially for lending money.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin usus (use), past participle of uti (to use). Earliest documented use: 1610.
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UXURIOUS - showering one's wife with richness and good things

USER-IOUS - addicted to the computer

USURPIOUS - power-hungry