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Adjective: voracious  vu'rey-shus [N. Amer], vu'rey-shus [Brit]
  1. Excessively greedy and grasping
    "paying taxes to voracious governments"
    - rapacious, ravening
     
  2. Devouring or craving food in great quantities
    "voracious sharks"
    - edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, wolfish

Sounds like: veracious

See also: acquisitive, gluttonous, voraciously, voraciousness

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