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It's funny how some adjectives always seem to be followed by certain nouns, huh? I think about this whenever I heard about "bodies strewn on the street" on the news.

Reading (and watching) seems to be compared to eating all the time: - I devoured that book - I binged that season

Then there's that term, "consumption" which seemingly applies to every piece of media.

Similarly, I have observed 'abject' going with 'poverty', usually.

You're looking for the linguistic term 'collocation,' and these are good examples of idiomatic usage of English. Further, words located in proximity with each other is a big part of the distributional hypothesis: "you shall know a word by the company it keeps". This is in turn a key component of how language models like word2vec or GloVe can be effective.

https://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/hofstadter/analogy....

There is a "veritable cornucopia" of these phrases.

This is actually an everyday way of expressing a scientifically observed fact. Studies of highly intelligent people suggest that they have a “rage to learn”: they greedily and even obsessively search out new information.

Hungry for information and hungry for more books