Thursday, July 10, 2008

VOCABULARY WORD NO. 36

Today's Word "edacious"
edacious \i-DAY-shus\ (adjective) - Given to eating; voracious; devouring. "Occasionally the road must be set back, and once the lighthouse was moved back from the cliffs, eaten away by the edacious tooth of the sea." -- Henry White Warren, 'Among The Forces' Edacious is from Latin edax, edac-, gluttonous, consuming, from edo, edere, to eat.

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