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The Word of the Day for April 16 is: 

edacious   \ih-DAY-shuss\   adjective
     1 : having a huge appetite : ravenous
    *2 : excessively eager : insatiable

Example sentence:
     Fiona, an edacious reader, completed a book every few days and usually had 
begun her next one before she had finished her last.
  
Did you know?
     "Tempus edax rerum." That wise Latin line by the Roman poet Ovid 
translates as "Time, the devourer of all things." Ovid's correlation between 
rapaciousness and time is appropriate to a discussion of "edacious." That 
English word is a descendant of "edax," which is in turn a derivative of the 
Latin verb "edere," meaning "to eat." In its earliest known English uses, 
"edacious" meant "of or relating to eating." It later came to be used generally 
as a synonym of "voracious," and it has often been used specifically in 
contexts referring to time. That's how Scottish essayist and historian Thomas 
Carlyle used it when he referred to events "swallowed in the depths of edacious 
time."

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.