voracious

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The Word of the Day for December 19 is:=20

voracious   \vaw-RAY-shus\   adjective
     1 : having a huge appetite : ravenous
    *2 : excessively eager : insatiable

Example sentence:
      Cemal is a voracious reader who whips through three or four books =
each week.

Did you know?
          "Voracious" is one of several English words that derive from t=
he Latin verb "vorare," which means "to eat greedily" or "to devour." "V=
orare" is also an ancestor of "devour" and of the "-ivorous" words, whic=
h describe the diets of various animals. These include "carnivorous" ("m=
eat-eating"), "herbivorous" ("plant-eating"), "omnivorous" ("feeding on =
both animals and plants"), "frugivorous" ("fruit-eating"), "graminivorou=
s" ("feeding on grass"), and "piscivorous" ("fish-eating").=20





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