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Words To Go is a blog for folks looking to expand and improve their everyday vocabulary.  Each day, three new words will be featured with their definitions and examples of their use.

Make a commitment to use these words both conversationally and in the written word.

Words For Today:  March 16, 2012

Ravenous

Prevail

Narrative

Ravenous

Extremely hungry; famished; voracious.

Intensely eager for gratification or satisfaction.

The group had walked the entire trail and were now ravenous for their evening meal.

Prevail

To succeed, become dominant; win out.

To appear or occur as the more important or frequent feature or element.

To use persuasion or inducement successfully.

Even though his team was trailing, James was confident that by game's end, his team would prevail.

Narrative

A story or account of events, experiences.

A book, literary work

Consisting of or being a narrative.

Jill was providing the narrative as the slides appeared on the screen.