voracious

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The Word of the Day for December 19 is: 

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 the 
Latin verb "vorare," which means "to eat greedily" or "to devour." "Vorare" is 
also an ancestor of "devour" and of the "-ivorous" words, which describe the 
diets of various animals. These include "carnivorous" ("meat-eating"), 
"herbivorous" ("plant-eating"), "omnivorous" ("feeding on both animals and 
plants"), "frugivorous" ("fruit-eating"), "graminivorous" ("feeding on grass"), 
and "piscivorous" ("fish-eating"). 





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