veracious vs voracious

veracious

Definitions

adjective

  1. precisely accurate
  2. habitually speaking the truth

Examples

Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rhodomontade or thrasonical bombast.

veracious," but one of the prettiest and most thoroughly English words in the dictionary.

'calumnious' to-day must pass as veracious with triumph another day: gods and men have declared that Sansculottism cannot be.

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voracious

Definitions

adjective

  1. devouring or craving food in great quantities
  2. excessively greedy and grasping

Examples

There should be plenty of thunder left in the powerful arms and lower body he has developed since arriving in America as an underfed teenager with bright eyes and a voracious appetite for success.

Government broadcasting policy has always been surrounded by high-sounding rhetoric, but the need to ensure financial viability while filling the programming needs of a voracious medium has always been the basic driver of TV practice.

The titbits his own hunting skill provided were insignificant when set against his voracious appetite, and it was the duty of his parents to make up the difference.

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