Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Wednesday Word: Rapacious

rapacious |rəˈpāSHəs| adjectiveaggressively greedy or grasping: rapaciouslandlords.DERIVATIVES rapaciously adverb.rapaciousness nounORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latinrapax, rapac- (from rapere ‘to snatch’) + -ious.This word makes me think of carnivorous dinosaurs. 

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