veracious vs voracious
Definitions
adjective
- precisely accurate
- habitually speaking the truth
Examples
I am completely convinced that not everyone is capable of presenting Don Juan on the stage as the veracious lover type of figure.
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.
Definitions
adjective
- devouring or craving food in great quantities
- 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.
