Rabid & Rabies

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–adjective 

1. irrationally extreme in opinion or practice: a rabid isolationist; a rabid baseball fan. 

2. furious or raging; violently intense: a rabid hunger. 

3. affected with or pertaining to rabies; mad. 



rabies

【醫】狂犬病

　　

Slowly letting his insurrectionist sympathies show, Stauffenberg is introduced to a circle of powerful men, many of them old-school army officers whose conservative notions are closer to those of the Kaiser of their youth than to the rabid ideology of Hitler and the SS. 



Script unfortunately erases many of the interesting personal and political nuances pertaining to these men, notably the urgent belief of some that, with Hitler gone, they could join with the United States and Britain to beat back the Soviet Union and prevent the Bolshevization of Germany.





ravenous

a famished condition

ravenous wild [beasts].

ravening

adds the idea of fierceness & savagery

ravening [wolves]. 

veracious

voracious

1. 

craving a great deal of food

a voracious [appetite].

2. 

voracious [readers] 

After all, a moviegoer’s [imaginative] life is voracious.

rapacious

insatiable

When small-town high school hottie Jennifer (Megan Fox) is possessed by a hungry demon, guys who never [stood] a chance with her, take on new [luster] in the light of Jennifer’s [insatiable] appetite. From the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Juno. 

Harpy

her Martha remains one of the more astonishing examples of an avenging [harpy] that the screen has to offer. 

avaricious

Walrus