This week's theme
Miscellaneous words

This week's words
acuity
desuetude
turgid
sciolism
edacity

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PRONUNCIATION:

(i-DAS-i-tee)

MEANING:

noun: Greediness; good appetite.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin edere (to eat). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ed- (to eat, to bite) that has given other words such as edible, comestible, obese, etch, fret, and postprandial. Earliest documented use: 1626.

USAGE:

"Allender is still undaunted, but hungry, not with the reckless experience appetite of a kid, but rather with the edacity of an older gourmand who wants as much of what he loves as possible."
Alan Tennant; The Guadalupe Mountains of Texas; U of Texas Press; 1980.

See more usage examples of edacity in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.

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