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Aug 29, 2008
This week's themeWhy use a simple word? This week's words dactylogram apograph argillaceous maquillage pleonexia This week’s comments AWADmail 322 Next week's theme Words that appear to be misspellings 
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with Anu GargpleonexiaPRONUNCIATION:
(pli-uh-NEK-see-uh)
MEANING:
noun: Excessive or insatiable covetousness.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek pleonektein (to be greedy), from pleion (more) + ekhein (have).
USAGE:
"Don McClanen thinks a condition called pleonexia has overtaken the U.S.
'Pleonexia is an insatiable need for more of what I already have, and
it has penetrated our culture to the point where people are angry at
the poor,' he states."Jaye Scholl; Don McClanen Offers the Wealthy a Different Kind of Freedom; Barron's (New York); Sep 18, 2000. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face. -Albert Camus, writer and philosopher (1913-1960)
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