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Vocabulary: I'm hungry

"Eating" is one of the activities that takes a lot of time in our lives, together with sleeping and working! Of course, and we'll see it here, you can swallow food like a glutton, or pick at your food like a bird ...

Yet, eating is not only "feeding oneself". Very often, it's also a social activity that we share with our loved ones, our families, our friends or colleagues.

The food business/ the food trade	foodstuffs
To feed (I fed, fed) someone	to nourish sb with sth
Well nourished	nourishing
Wholesome	unwholesome
Light/ heavy	it's off!
Digestion/ Indigestion	to have an attack of indigestion
To digest=> digestible=> indigestible	eatable/ uneatable/ inedible
Edible/ inedible	to feed oneself on something
To subsist	a ration
Undernourishment	malnutrition
A vitamin deficiency	hunger
To starve to death / to be starving	to die of starvation

VEGETABLES make your stomach HAPPY! Heavy food => indigestion.

To eat / drink * in moderation	To eat heartily
To have an appetite	To have a healthy/ hearty appetite
To eat like a horse	To be a big eater
To have a very small appetite / To eat like a bird	To be off one's food
To fast	Frugal

* To eat, I ate, eaten.// ** To drink, I drank, drunk.

to eat ravenously To fast To eat like a horse

To be hungry	To be famished
To be ravenous	To eat one's fill
Greed=> greedy	Gluttony=> to be gluttonous
To be fastidious	To be choosy (BE)/ To be picky (AE)

To be greedy To be famished Gluttony = a Deadly Sin

Ways of eating...

To bite (into) something	To chew
To nibble	To crunch
To lick	To swallow
It went down the wrong way	To eat something up
A substantial meal	Filling
To make sb's mouth water	To gobble up/ gulp down/ wolf down
To gorge oneself up	To stuff oneself with
To put away a whole cake!	"I'm full!"
To pick/ nibble at one's food	It tastes nice/ awful

Appetizing	Delicious
A delicacy	To treat oneself to
This is my treat!	A gourmet

I do hope you won't be "full" after learning this lesson, but still starving, or hungry for the following test. I give you the FORCE.

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