voracious
having a huge appetite for food or for an activity
Word origin: From Latin vorare, to devour.
Voracious in a sentence
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A voracious reader, she finished several novels every week.
A voracious reader, she worked through the entire reading list before the term had even begun.
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Verbal · Text Completion
The novelist's late style is admired precisely for its blank: every superfluous phrase has been pared away, leaving prose of startling economy.
Using “voracious” well
Voracious means having a huge appetite, for food or for an activity such as reading. Do not confuse it with veracious, which means truthful.
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