Word of the Day for Sunday January 8, 2006

esurient \ih-SUR-ee-uhnt; -ZUR-\, adjective:
Hungry; voracious; greedy.

The enemy then was an esurient Soviet Union which, having
swallowed up Eastern Europe, had imposed a totalitarian
system on countries just liberated from Nazism.
--Arnold Beichman, "As Truman envisioned our role,"
[1]Washington Times, April 23, 2002

These new censors, the deconstructionists, take the most
luscious and delicious apple and show it to a hungry
person. They then seal the fruit with plastic wrap and
demand that the esurient victim enjoy its flavour.
--Michael Coren, "Behold the deconstructionist, who
liberates literature by confining it to a cult," [2]Alberta
Report, April 10, 1995
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Esurient comes from the present participle of Latin esurire,
"to be hungry, to desire eagerly," from edere, "to eat."

References

1. http://www.washingtontimes.com/
2. http://report.ca/

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