Monday, November 2, 2015

appetite, apatite

Appetite or appetite means a desire for food; often used figuratively--
Let's play one more game, to work up an appetite for lunch.
He seems listless and has no appetite.
He has an appetite for the bizarre and surreal.

Apatite or apatite means a mineral used to make fertilzer and  jewelry, among other things--
This is a phosphate fertilizer, made with apatite.
She wrapped silver wire around a piece of apatite to make a pendant.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"She lost her appetite for dinner when she found out that she lost her apatite ring."

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