"Rapacious" is a word in ENGLISH
Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy;
ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite.
Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals
seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious
bird.
Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by
violence; seizing by force.
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.
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Pigs don't look very smart to me. Sure, they are. You ever see a sow try to make a silk purse out of a farmer's ear?
A falling on and seizing, as the prey of a rapacious bird; the act of swooping.
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