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Miscellaneous words



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acuity

desuetude

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sciolism

edacity



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edacity 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:

Alan Tennant; The Guadalupe Mountains of Texas; U of Texas Press; 1980.



See more usage examples of "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

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. -Spanish proverb





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