Week 02

The History of English in ten minutes

voracious

adjective

1.craving or consuming large quantities of food:

a voracious appetite.

2.exceedingly eager or avid:

voracious readers; a voracious collector.

Related forms

voraciously, adverb

voraciousness, noun

unvoracious, adjective

unvoraciously, adverb

unvoraciousness, noun

indiscriminate

adjective

1.not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.:
indiscriminate in one's friendships.

2.not discriminate; haphazard; thoughtless:
indiscriminate slaughter.

3.not kept apart or divided; thrown together; jumbled:
an indiscriminate combination of colors and styles.

Related forms

indiscriminately, adverb

indiscriminateness, noun

eminent

adjective

1.high in station, rank, or repute; prominent; distinguished:
eminent statesmen.

2.conspicuous, signal, or noteworthy:
eminent fairness.

3.lofty; high:
eminent peaks.

4.prominent; projecting; protruding:
an eminent nose.

Related forms

eminently, adverb

noneminent, adjective

quasi-eminent, adjective

quasi-eminently, adverb

uneminent, adjective

steep

verb (used with object)

1.to soak in water or other liquid, as to soften, cleanse, or extract some constituent:
to steep tea in boiling-hot water; to steep reeds for basket weaving.

2.to wet thoroughly in or with a liquid; drench; saturate; imbue.

3.to immerse in or saturate or imbue with some pervading, absorbing, or stupefying influence or agency: an incident steeped in mystery.

verb (used without object)

4.to lie soaking in a liquid.

noun

5.the act or process of steeping or the state of being steeped.

6.

a liquid in which something is steeped.

replete

adjective

1.abundantly supplied or provided; filled (usually followed by with):a speech replete with sentimentality.

2.stuffed or gorged with food and drink.

3.complete:a scholarly survey, replete in its notes and citations.

noun

4.Entomology. (among honey ants) a worker with a distensible crop in which honeydew and nectar are stored for the use of the colony.

abound

verb (used without object)

1.to occur or exist in great quantities or numbers:a stream in which trout abound.

2.to be rich or well supplied (usually followed by in):The region abounds in coal.

3.to be filled; teem (usually followed by with):The ship abounds with rats.

Related forms

aboundingly, adverb

overabound, verb (used without object)

well-abounding, adjective