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"an avid sports fan"adjectivemarked by active interest and enthusiasm
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"avid for adventure" "an avid ambition to succeed" "the esurient eyes of an avid curiosity"adjective(often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous
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- david (Old Testament) the 2nd king of the Israelites; as a young shepherd he fought Goliath (a giant Philistine warrior) and killed him by hitting him in the head with a stone flung from a sling; he united Israel with Jerusalem as its capital; many of the Psalms are attributed to David (circa 1000-962 BC)
- stanley Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)
- ruth the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
- solomon (Old Testament) son of David and king of Israel noted for his wisdom (10th century BC)
- tamil a member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasian people of southern India and Sri Lanka
- tamil the Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the Tamil in southern India and Sri Lanka
- devour enjoy avidly
- bethlehem a small town near Jerusalem on the West Bank of the Jordan River; early home of David and regarded as the place where Jesus was born
- telugu a Dravidian language spoken by the Telugu in southeastern India
- goliath (Old Testament) a giant Philistine warrior who was slain by David with a slingshot