What's the difference between irrepressible and voracious?

Irrepressible


Definition:

  • (a.) Not capable of being repressed, restrained, or controlled; as, irrepressible joy; an irrepressible conflict.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Crucially, these irrepressible fluctuations provide a natural explanation for the temperature fluctuations observed by Planck.
  • (2) Inspired by Gareth Bale, Wales were irrepressible as they subjected Russia to a humiliating defeat and secured their place in the knockout stage of Euro 2016 as group winners.
  • (3) As ruthless as Liverpool were with their finishing, in particular the irrepressible Luis Suárez , who scored twice to take his tally for the season to 22, Stoke were guilty of some calamitous defending and contributed largely to their own downfall.
  • (4) He's irrepressible, so he finds a way to overcome what obstacles they give him.
  • (5) Trailing 2-1 at one stage, Liverpool responded in emphatic fashion through a hat-trick from the irrepressible Luis Suárez, who took his tally for the season to 28 in 25 appearances, two goals from Martin Skrtel and another for Daniel Sturridge.
  • (6) With David Silva irrepressible, City created so many chances it seemed faintly ridiculous that they should face the prospect of further dropped points away from home, however boldly Fulham contributed to a real thriller.
  • (7) So too were ideological debates that had supposedly long been settled; that catchphrase of our age, “there is no alternative”, was confronted by myriad tiny, irrepressible political grenades that detonated deep inside countless imaginations.
  • (8) "I have a gift and I am gifting it to you," the irrepressible Italian nun told judges when she started out in March in the amateur contest.
  • (9) The Zymomonas mobilis phoA gene, encoding a phosphate-irrepressible alkaline phosphatase (ZAPase), was cloned and its expression was studied in phoA mutants of Escherichia coli.
  • (10) Once Liverpool had mustered some rhythm of their own, they were irrepressible.
  • (11) The monkey made irrepressible saccades toward the contralateral visual field where cells in the SNr at the injection site had their visual or movement field.
  • (12) Its spirit seems to hark back, past Shakespeare, to Chaucer, enabling Dickens to embody something quintessentially and irrepressibly English.
  • (13) In spite of a constant and irrepressible growth of sprouts from the proximal stump of peripheral nerves that have been injured, functional recovery varies greatly from one case to another.
  • (14) Ai Weiwei is only the best known, but he remains a crucial figure, one irrepressible man living in truth who reveals the billion lies attending China’s advance into the world.
  • (15) Irrepressibly bright and spirited, Ben experienced life at full tilt.
  • (16) Goals from Ramiro Funes Mori and the irrepressible Romelu Lukaku, his 19th of the season, sandwiched a rare composed finish from Jesús Navas to give Martínez the advantage he craved and the tangible reward he needed to convince the growing doubters .
  • (17) That ought to be the case,” Eubank Sr says, “but I have not seen anyone who has his irrepressibility, relentlessness, speed, power, spite and control.
  • (18) Monday night’s victor in Nice will know the hosts can be both vulnerable and irrepressible.
  • (19) Chelsea were irrepressible, but Leicester never hinted at resistance.
  • (20) In this case, and if it assumes the features of strong and irrepressible pain, it can probably be related to sudden and remarkable hematic harvest in subcapsular space or, owing to its breach, in perirenal space.

Voracious


Definition:

  • (a.) Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The disastrous launches of SimCity and Battlefield 4 , the confining and somewhat invasive nature of the publisher’s Origin digital gaming platform and the voraciously monetised smartphone version of Dungeon Keeper, have kicked further dents in its reputation.
  • (2) The voracious hunger and profuse perspiration were reduced, the patient's serum lipids became normal, her blood glucose fell, and her sensitivity to exogenous insulin increased.
  • (3) "But where in Dostoevsky or Poe the protagonist experiences his double as a terrifying embodiment of his own otherness (and especially his own voraciousness and destructiveness), we barely notice the difference between ourselves and our online double.
  • (4) Following two centuries of voracious exploitation of every mineral, metal and biological resource, we will soon be facing what Daly calls an "empty world".
  • (5) At times the arguments and passion displayed were enough to make the hair on the back of any neutral observer's neck stand up on end - it was impossible not to be inspired by people's voracious belief in their school.
  • (6) For 30 years he has been a voracious buyer of new art and was instrumental in the success of the Young British Artists movement, buying up the best of the likes of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin and exhibiting it at the groundbreaking Sensation show at the Royal Academy in 1997.
  • (7) Savile had a voracious sexual appetite,” Smith writes.
  • (8) I was a voracious customer of $10 ebooks, as I confessed in 2011 .
  • (9) Graduating from the tea urn to 'number boy', snapping shut the clapperboard, his appetite to learn was voracious.
  • (10) And appetite is voracious for a greater understanding of the constitution and how courts can become an activist’s tool, experts say, particularly among activists resisting Trump.
  • (11) Jeannette Baxter: You admit to being more of a voracious consumer of visual texts than literary ones.
  • (12) Natural bee keeping as advocated by naturalbeekeepingtrust.org puts the real producers (ie the bees) first rather than voracious consumers.
  • (13) TAR rats that ate crickets before a cyclophosphamide injection were thereafter voracious predators as were saline-injected and pseudoconditioning controls of both strains.
  • (14) No consumer of Mafia culture was more voracious than the Mafia themselves.
  • (15) "Households in the United States and elsewhere propelled the global economy with their voracious appetite for consumption, soaking up imports from countries that relied heavily on exports to grow.
  • (16) When the concentration of calcium ions in the cerebral ventricles is elevated, a fully satiated rat eats voraciously.
  • (17) Everyone knows the story of how Liz MacKean , a reporter for BBC Newsnight and her producer, Meirion Jones , found the evidence that Savile was a voracious paedophile and how the BBC stopped them broadcasting.
  • (18) Peres wrote 11 books, read poetry voraciously, and could quote from Old Testament prophets, French literature and Chinese philosophy with equal ease.
  • (19) The warning is being sounded over a voracious species called the New Guinea flatworm.
  • (20) The first Jesuit pope turns out to be a voracious cultural aficionado – "a Jesuit must be creative," Francis says at one point – but do his literary and artistic inclinations reveal anything about his religious orientation?