The word of the day is designed to broaden our grammatical horizons. Nothing is more impressive than casually spouting off 5-syllable masterpieces in mid-sentence – except maybe really big boobs… Anyway, every day I’ll post a new word for you to work into daily conversation so that you can wow friends, dazzle coworkers and confuse blonde girls and frat guys, because learning is fun and knowing is half the battle.
 

January 18, 2005

Rapacious

Ra-pa'cious: adj. "Greedy; grasping; predatory."

Everyone had the rapacious bully at school that would always take kids' lunch money and make fun of them, but bullies only did it because they were insecure and too fat to be able to see their own penis.

Beat it