All 3 Uses of
avid
in
Night
- How avid we were at that moment for one word of confidence, one sentence to say that there were no grounds for fear, that the meeting could not have been more commonplace, more routine, that it had only been a question of social welfare, of sanitary arrangements!†
Chpt 1
- A poor, emaciated, dried-up Jew questioned him avidly in a trembling voice: "But … but, Blockaelteste, they did write me down!"
Chpt 5avidly = enthusiastically or with great interest
- They undressed him, the survivors avidly sharing out his clothes, then two "gravediggers" took him, one by the head and one by the feet, and threw him out of the wagon like a sack of flour.
Chpt 7 *
Definition:
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(avid) enthusiastic or strongly interested