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Jun 25, 2010 This week's theme Words to describe people This week's words weathercock persnickety nescient bromidic esurient This week's comments AWADmail 417 Next week's theme Dirty words Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg esurient PRONUNCIATION: (i-SOOR-ee-uhnt) MEANING: adjective: Hungry; greedy. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin esurire (to be hungry), from edere (to eat). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ed- (to eat, to bite) that has also given us edible, comestible, obese, etch, fret, edacious, prandial, and postprandial. USAGE: "Rising land values have drawn droves of esurient developers." Melissa Cassutt; Study Reminds Bonita of Need for Greenspace; Marco Eagle (Marco Island, Florida); Jan 11, 2006. "This daily show sends esurient teenage aficionados to the cultural birthplace of their favourite dishes." It's Cold Turkey for the Junk Food Junkies; Evening Standard (London, UK); May 11, 2007. Explore "esurient" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Each morning puts a man on trial and each evening passes judgment. -Roy L. Smith

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