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Oct 9, 2026
This week’s themeA change of character: Act II This week’s words ideocracy androgenous calque vinous voracity 
The Plumb-Pudding in Danger, 1805
Pitt and Napoleon carve up the world -- an appetite of global proportions Art: James Gillray Wordsmith Games
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Gargvoracity
PRONUNCIATION:
(vuh/vo-RAS-i-tee)
MEANING:
noun: An excessive desire to eat or consume something.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin vorare (to devour). Earliest documented use: 1526.
NOTES:
Last week’s word veracity
asks, “Is it true?” Today’s voracity asks, “Is there more?”
USAGE:
“You can tell a lot about the cultural status of capitalism by how we
refer to people who buy stuff. ... ‘Consumer,’ with its air of piggish,
Pac-Man voracity, is the slightly dehumanizing moniker most of us grew
up with.” Carina Chocano; Group Think; The New York Times Magazine; Apr 22, 2018. See more usage examples of voracity in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
From everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living, nothing
in my eyes is better and more valuable than bridges. They are more
important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and
being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot
where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other
buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad. -Ivo Andric,
novelist, Nobel laureate (9 Oct 1892-1975)
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