voracious: (Adjective) having an extremely strong desire to do or have a lot of something
(Collocations)
(1) appetite ... voracious
(2) read voraciously
(3) voracious appetites
(4) voracious appetite
(Adverb) voraciously
(Noun) voracity
(Example)
1 - Pigs are voracious feeders.
2 - Her appetite for information was voracious.
3 - Anne has always read voraciously.
indiscriminate: (Adjective) done without thinking about what harm it might cause
(Collocations)
(1) indiscriminate attacks/ killing/ violence/ bombing etc
(2) indiscriminate use
(Adverb) indiscriminately
(Example)
(1) terrorists responsible for indiscriminate killing
(2) the indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizers
(3) soldiers fired indiscriminately into the crowd.
(4) The youngster who reads voraciously, through indiscriminately, does not necessarily gain in wisdom over the teenager who is more selective in his reading material.
eminent: (Adjective) an eminent person is famous, important, and respected
(Example)
(1) an eminent lawyer
(2) A young man who has read the life story of every eminent athlete of the twentieth century.
steeped: (Adjective) saturated
(Example)
- a coed ( a woman student at university) who has steeped herself in every social-protest novel she can get her hands on, may very well be learning all there is to know in a very limited area.
replete: (Adjective) full of something
(Example)
(1) Literature is replete with tales of power.
(2) Books are replete with so many wonders that it is often discouraging to see bright young people limit their own experiences.
