GRE重點(diǎn)詞匯積累：voracious

　　voracious: 狼吞虎咽的; insatiable; having a huge or great appetite

　　1) having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous

　　voracious <> abstemious, easily sated, lack of appetite

　　voracious : satisfy

　　【近】edacious, gluttonous, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, avid

　　【考法1】adj. 有很大食量的，貪吃的： having a huge appetite

　　【例】 He has a voracious appetite. 他的食量驚人。

　　【近】 edacious, esurient, gluttonous, swinish

　　【反】 abstemious, abstentious 有節(jié)制的

　　【考法2】adj. 貪婪的，如饑似渴的： having or marked by an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit

　　【例】 a voracious reader who locked himself up in the study 一個(gè)把自己鎖在書房的貪婪的讀者

　　【近】 acquisitive, avid, covetous, grasping, greedy, hungry, rapacious, ravenous, thirsty

　　【反】 apathetic, indifferent, uneager, unenthusiastic 無(wú)所謂的

　　【派】 voracity n. 食欲，貪婪

　　The film festival briefly satisfied their voracious appetite for new movies.