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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 2

voracious

adjective

Definition

having a great appetite

In a sentence

She is a voracious reader of mysteries.

Similar words

  • greedy
  • insatiable

Why this word matters: voracious appears in academic reading at the 8th-grade level and is exactly the type of word that shows up on the CPS HSAT Reading section. Practice it in context with our spaced-repetition system at vocabulary.