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Word of the Day Saturday, January 30, 2010

rapacious

\ruh-PAY-shuhs\ , adjective;

1. Given to plunder; seizing by force.
2. Subsisting on prey.
3. Grasping; greedy.


She sat towards the middle of the theater, slouched down slightly in her seat. She was a little embarrassed to be there, but not embarrassed enough not to show up. Granted, the Twilight books were really written for teenage girls, but she had enjoyed them, so what the hell?

"God Bella is an idiot," she thought to herself during the scene where Bella and Jacob were riding their motorcycles around, "She isn't good looking and basically has no redeeming qualities other than the fact that she can pull off skinny jeans."

She shook the box of Junior Mints trying to dislodge the last couple of candies from the bottom of the box. Finally she thrust one finger into the corner to scoop out the last one, and when she looked up Jacob was whipping off his t-shirt to wipe the blood from Bella's forehead and choked slightly on her Junior Mint.

Daaammmmn.

She sat there rapaciously enjoying the chiseled, seventeen year old chest muscles spread across the 50 foot screen.

"Well," she thought, "This is quite the movie. Vampires. Werewolves. And Cougars."