Question

Choose the one which best expresses the meaning of
VORACIOUS
a. Quick
b. Angry
c. Hungry
d. Wild

Answer 1

Hint: If you want to eat a lot of food, you are voracious. A voracious person is someone who wants to or eats a lot of food.

Complete answer:
Let us look at a few examples.
If we take the word quick. Someone who is very quick has a lot of speed in everything he does. He was very quick in fixing the broken chair. A word similar to the word quick is fast. It can be used in the same sentence without changing the meaning. He fixed the broken chair very fast.
If we take the word angry, it means to get very furious at something. My mother got angry when I broke the vase. A meaning similar to the word angry is annoyed. My mother was annoyed at me for breaking the vase. Thus, annoyed and angry are similar to each other in meaning.
Now let us see the word given in the question.
A voracious person is a person who can consume great quantities of food. For example, He fell ill because of how voracious he was last night at the party. Therefore, the word similar to ‘voracious’ from the given answers is option c, that is, hungry. Thus, option c is the correct answer.

Note: Voracious also means to be very enthusiastic about something. For example, a voracious reader reads a lot of books. Therefore, we should know which meaning of a word should be taken into account while answering a question. This can be decided by looking at the given options.