voracious

vuh-RAY-shusadj

Meaning wanting huge amounts of food, or of some activity

Memory hook VOR = eat: de-VOUR-s every book. Sami devours a book, then another, then another, and still wants more: he is a voracious reader.

After swimming all morning, the voracious campers ate every pancake in sight.

In context Sami is a voracious reader; he finishes a book every day and still asks the librarian what else he can borrow.

Similar ravenous, insatiable, greedy, avid

Opposite full, satisfied, indifferent

From Latin vorax, “greedy for food,” from vorare (to devour).

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