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Hunger Emphasizing Hungered Jules Eager Classroom Learning Adventure

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If you say that someone h______ for something or hungers after it, you are emphasizing that they want it very much.If you say that someone hungers for something or hungers after it, you are emphasizing that they want it very much.
But Jules was not eager for classroom learning, he hungered for adventure.
word hunger
full-definition
noun
Hunger is the feeling of weakness or discomfort that you get when you need something to eat .
Hunger is the body's signal that levels of blood sugar are too low.
Protein helps to fill you up and curb hunger pangs.
Hunger is a severe lack of food which causes suffering or death .
Three hundred people in this town are dying of hunger every day.
If you have a hunger for something, you want or need it very much.
Geffen has a hunger for success that seems bottomless.
...his hunger to equal Vardon's record of six wins.
verb
If you say that someone hungers for something or hungers after it, you are emphasizing that they want it very much.
But Jules was not eager for classroom learning, he hungered for adventure.
inflections hungershungeringhungeredthe munchies
cefr-level B2

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b2

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