I subscribe to a daily word service. Each day I am sent some interesting words to add to my vocabulary and today's word is one that can easily be incorporated into anyone's conversation, arousing a bit of interest and an opportunity to share it's meaning. If you are the Word Master for a Toastmaster's Club, it is an excellent word to bring to the table. I would like to encourage you to be an edacious Toastmaster or Public Speaker devouring all the information you can about the subject of public speaking.
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg
edacious
PRONUNCIATION: (i-DAY-shuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Devouring; voracious.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin edere (to eat). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ed- (to eat, to bite) that has given other words such as edible, comestible, obese, etch, fret, and postprandial.
USAGE:
"For too many years my edacious reading habits had been leading me into one unappealing corner after another, dank cul-de-sacs littered with tear-stained diaries, empty pill bottles, bulging briefcases, broken vows, humdrum phrases, sociological swab samples, and the (lovely?) bones of dismembered children."
Tom Robbins; In Defiance of Gravity; Harper's (New York); Sep 2004.
You can sign up for your own "word of the day" by going to Wordsmith.org and I would encourage you to be a more edacious reader and learner.
To a Better You!!
Fran Watson
P.S. Check out this book - Mastering Public Speaking
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