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Nov 8, 2009
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ra•pa•cious



Pronunciation: (ru-pā'shus), [key]
adj.
1. given to seizing for plunder or the satisfaction of greed.
2. inordinately greedy; predatory; extortionate: a rapacious disposition.
3. (of animals) subsisting by the capture of living prey; predacious.

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