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Definition
enthusiastic or strongly interested
- Francie read them all avidly, then sold them at half price to the neighborhood stationery store and put the money in Mama's tin-can bank.Chapter 5 (29% in)
- He was nineteen and avid for life and he couldn't understand why he was doomed.Chapter 4 (17% in)
- Evy, loving talent in music and lacking it herself, sought for it avidly in her children.Chapter 7 (83% in)
There are no more uses of "avid" in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
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