Meaning: vor/vour/vorous

Root: eat greedily

 

1. voracious : ravenous
2. devour: eat greedily
3. omnivorous : eating both animal and plant food
4. sanguivorous : feeding on blood
5. seminivorous : feeding on seeds

 

Root: volu/t/vol/volve/volv

Meaning:  to turn, to roll

 

1. devolution : degeneration
2. evolve : to change into something else
3. involve : to embroil
4. revolt : to protest
5. convolute : wrap thoroughly

 

Context:

 

1. He has a voracious appetite
2. The hungry lion devoured the piece of meat
3. Man is omnivorous
4. Mosquitoes are sanguivorous
5. Birds are seminivorous
6. The descent through stages of time is devolution
7. Man evolved from the primates
8. The politician was involved in the scam
9. The medicine has revolting smell
10. The rope was in a convoluted tangle

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