Month: November 2019

Avid (Adjective)

1. characterized by enthusiasm and vigorous pursuit: very eager and enthusiastic
2. desirous to the point of greed: urgently eager: GREEDY

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/avid

In the passage “BROOKLYN WAS MINE” by Jennifer Eagan, the author states “And she often reported on her avid reading”

In this sentence, the author uses the word “avid” to describe the enthusiasm that Lucy had from some of her readings which were: Dorothy Parker, Howard Fast, Boris Voyetekhov’s The Last Days of Sevastopol”… Read More...

Superb(noun)

Marked to the highest degree by grandeur, excellence, brilliance or competence

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/superb

In “Reading Lucy” by Jennifer Egan, the author says, “When it came to life in the navy yard around the job, Lucy was superb. “I just learned of a wonderful way to lose friends and get a lot of laughs or do you already know the funnel trick?” she wrote in an undated letter.

This means that Lucy was excellent at her job at the navy yard, she knows how to do it well… Read More...