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Someone who is abstemious avoids doing too much of something enjoyable, such as eating or drinking; rather, they consume in a moderate fashion.
Abstinence is the practice of keeping away from or avoiding something you enjoy—such as the physical pleasures of excessive food and drink—usually for health or religious reasons.
When you are acquisitive, you are driven to pursue and own wealth and possessions—often in a greedy fashion.
You allay someone’s fear or concern by making them feel less afraid or worried.
When you assuage an unpleasant feeling, you make it less painful or severe, thereby calming it.
Something austere is simple and plain in its style; an austere person is strict and severe with themselves.
Avarice is the extremely strong desire to have a lot of money and possessions.
If you covet something that someone else has, you have a strong desire to have it for yourself.
A deluge is a sudden, heavy downfall of rain; it can also be a large number of things, such as papers or e-mails, that someone gets all at the same time, making them very difficult to handle.
An exigent situation is urgent and demands a lot of attention, often in ways that are expensive in time, cost, and effort.
An exorbitant price or fee is much higher than what it should be or what is considered reasonable.
Someone who is frugal spends very little money—and even then only on things that are absolutely necessary.
If you describe someone as importunate, you think that they are annoying and unreasonable because they keep trying to get something from you.
If something is inordinate, it is much larger in amount or degree than is normally expected.
A parsimonious person is not willing to give or spend money.
If you describe a person’s behavior as rapacious, you disapprove of them because they always want more money, goods, or possessions than they really need.
If you are ravenous, you are extremely hungry.
When someone has restraint, they show self-control or self-discipline, which provides limits to what they do.
If something, such as food or drink, satiates you, it satisfies your need or desire so completely that you often feel that you have had too much.
A spartan lifestyle is very simple and severe; it has no luxuries or comforts.
If you have a surfeit of something, you have much more than what you need.
A teetotaler is one who does not drink alcohol.
An unquenchable desire or thirst cannot be satisfied or gotten rid of.
A voracious person has a strong desire to want a lot of something, especially food.
Adj.
insatiable
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Context
Katie woke up from her nap with her usual insatiable or endless need for chocolate. She rushed to the kitchen and began to gobble a rich cake insatiably and insistently, gulping down huge pieces and licking every last bit of frosting from her fingers. Katie’s unsatisfied, demanding, and insatiable appetite led her to then dig into the chocolate ice cream with chocolate sauce.
Quiz:Try again!
What is an insatiable appetite or desire?
One that needs huge amounts of sugar.
One that drives you to do something foolish.
One that is so strong that it cannot be satisfied.
Not Able To Be Satisfied An insatiable thirst for knowledge is not able to be satisfied--one must have more and more in a never-ending stream.
Examples
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for [honor], command, power, and glory.
— Cicero, Roman statesman
She has an insatiable desire to explore all the facets of her creativity by boldly diving into wildly varied mediums. And she intends to never stop learning more.
—
KNKX
An insatiable reader who reads “six newspapers a day, at least a dozen weekly periodicals, and at least one book a week,” Rubenstein believes that a lifetime of curiosity is essential for a good leader.
—
Forbes
Life had returned to normal, seemingly, when "suddenly, over two or three days, there was this insatiable desire to listen to piano music." . . . His music is ceaseless. "It never runs dry," he continued.
—
NPR
