avaricious vs lavish

avaricious

adj
  • Actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property. 

lavish

adj
  • Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal. 

  • Superabundant; excessive. 

verb
  • To give out extremely generously; to squander. 

  • To give out to (somebody) extremely generously. 

How often have the words avaricious and lavish occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )