The guests arrived hungry and excited for the meal.

Meaning: The guests came to the place feeling hungry and very happy about the meal they were going to eat.

Choice of Words: Arrived means to reach a place or destination. Hungry means feeling a need to eat. Excited means feeling very happy or enthusiastic. When you put them together, "Arrived hungry and excited for the meal" means the guests came to the place feeling a need to eat and feeling very happy about the meal.

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The visitors showed up starving and thrilled about the food.

Meaning: This means that the people who were invited to the gathering arrived feeling extremely hungry and excited about the food that was going to be served.

Choice of Words: Visitors is another word for guests, which refers to people who are invited to a gathering or event. Showed up means to arrive or appear at a place. Starving means to be extremely hungry or in need of food. Thrilled means to be very happy or excited about something. Food refers to the edible substances that are consumed to provide nourishment.

The invitees turned up famished and ecstatic about the nourishment.

Meaning: This means that the people who were invited to the gathering arrived feeling extremely hungry and excited about the food that was going to be served.

Choice of Words: Invitees is a formal word for guests, which refers to people who are invited to a gathering or event. Turned up is an informal way to say arrived or appeared at a place. Famished means to be extremely hungry or in need of food. Ecstatic means to be very happy or excited about something. Nourishment is a formal word for food, which refers to the edible substances that are consumed to provide nourishment.

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