Both Uses of
avid
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
- He read it standing up, avidly but without anxiety, and at the third page he stopped and examined Aureliano with a look of second recognition.†
Chpt 18 *avidly = enthusiastically or with great interest
- He read avidly until late at night, although from the manner in which he referred to his reading, Gaston thought that he did not buy the books in order to learn but to verify the truth of his knowledge, and that none of them interested him more than the parchments, to which he dedicated most of his time in the morning.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
enthusiastic or strongly interested