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| Adjective describing anything relating to cooking or the kitchen. |
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| Adjective or noun meaning an expert (or connoisseur) of fine food and drink. |
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| Servant in charge of wine. |
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| Someone with epicurean tastes has a very discriminating taste in food and wine. |
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| One of the seven deadly sins meaning excessive eating or drinking. Can be used figuratively to describe someone who overdoes it on anything. |
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| Adjective meaning ravenous or excessively hungry. Can be used figuratively to connote excessively greedy or insatiably hungry for things other than food. |
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| Adjective meaning appetizing to taste or smell. Generally means a salty or piquant flavor. |
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| Adjective meaning eating both animal and vegetable foods. Also means taking or devouring anything available. |
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| Noun refering to the art or science of good eating. It also means any particular, regional style of cooking. |
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| Adjective meaning acceptable to taste or sufficiently flavorable to be eaten. |
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| Adjective meaning juicy, either literally or figuratively. |
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| Adjective meaning presenting favorable circumstances or a positive outcome. |
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| Adjective meaning marked by success or producing favorable circumstances. |
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| Noun meaning a timely benefit or a stroke of good luck. |
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| Adjective meaning turned against or opposing. Circumstances are unfavorable or opposing one's interests or well-being. |
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| Adjective meaning causing damage, harm, or loss. |
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| Noun that has come to mean any grotesque parody of something or a disastrous mockery. |
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| Noun that means a sudden, disastrous downfall or defeat. |
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| Noun meaning a complete failure. |
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| Noun that has come to connote an overwhelming defeat or a disorderly retreat after battle. |
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| Noun meaning a monstrous evil or outrage or immensity or large size. |
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| Adjective describing someone who is stubbornly resistent to authority. |
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| Connotes hardened against feeling or hardhearted. |
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| Adjective describing someone who is considered unruly or a trouble maker, also means peevish or cranky. |
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| Adjective meaning stubbornly resistant to authority. |
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| Adjective describing someone who is difficult to maage or govern. It is most often applied to children or to adults who are behaving like children. |
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| Adjective meaning aggressively and noisily defiant. |
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| Adjective that means not to come to an agreement, describes someone who is stubbornly uncompromising. |
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| Adjective describing someone who is unable to be reformed or corrected. Its use is usually reserved for unruly children or adults with uncontrollable vices. |
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| Adjective meaning stubbornly perservering, often against all odds. |
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| Adjective describing someone who stubbornly asserts an opinion that is unproved or unprovable. Those beliefs are called dogma. |
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| Noun for behavior appropriate to a prevailing social code. |
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| Noun that denotes refinements and subtlety in a given situation. |
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| Adjective that describes behavior that is appropriate, fitting the accepted rules of conduct. |
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| Noun that names the codes of expected behavior in any given situation. |
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| A blunder or an awkward social moment. Faux Pas. |
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| Noun that concerns itself with the observation of existing social norms. Related to proper. |
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| Noun that denotes a person with no social sense, one with rude or non-existent manners. |
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| Noun that emphasizes a bad disposition or its near-rhyming surliness. |
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| Noun refering to subtle or slight variations and to the sensitivity of these variations. |
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| Phrase meaning to know what to do. |
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| Adjective meaning bold and determined, unwavering in purpose. |
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| Adjective meaning not discouraged or disheartened. |
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| Adjective that is a synonym for resolute. Someone who is intrepid is fearlessly brave. |
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| Someone with audacity is fearlessly, often recklessly, daring. |
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| Adjective meaning to remain, also means to resist control or be impatient under restriction. |
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| Noun meaning the strength of mind to endure pain or difficulty with courage. |
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| Adjctive meaning able to undergo adversity with bold self assurance.When someone is brazen, they are insolent. |
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| Someone with temerity exhibits a foolish disregard for danger. |
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| Word describing a person who seeks to overthrow popular ideas or institutions. |
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| Aynonymous adjective for saucy, meaning impudently bold. |
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| Adjective meaning dull, bland, or uninteresting and is usually used to describe speech or writing. |
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| Adjective meaning frugal or tightfisted in giving or spending. |
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| Noun meaning something at which a person excels. |
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| Adjective meaning gray- or white-haired and therefore quite old. It can also mean ancient and worthy of respect as a consequence of age. |
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| Noun that is a person who acts as a provacative stimulus or catalyst to action. a goad. A second meaning is an irritating critic. |
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| Adjective that describes something spotted or patchy, especially in black and white. |
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| Adjective meaning delicious or luscious. |
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| Architectural term that is a structural column sculpted in the form of a draped female. |
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| Adjective that means not inherent or coming from an external source. Another synonym is accidental. |
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| Noun meaning great beauty. |
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| Adjective that describes hard work, consistently applied to the task at hand. |
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| Adjective that refers to something really difficult or really powerful. |
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| Noun that refers to endurance, the strength - whether physical or mental - to keep going. |
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| Adjective that emphasizes painstaking care with details. |
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| Adjective that suggests attention to every minute detail or point. It can be positive or negative, depending on the context. |
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| Adjective that pushes meticulous and punctilious a little more toward the extreme. It can still be used in a positive context but often moves over into meaning overly exacting or unnecessarily squeamish. |
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| Adjective that suggests diligence, persistence. Implies the ability to stay in your seat until the job is done. |
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| The _________ person holds on, whether it be to an object, a goal, or a point of view. |
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| Noun that refers to speedy and cheerful willingness to do something. |
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| Adjective meaning frenzied, wildly excited. |
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| Noun that means the deterioration of mental faculties that comes with aging. |
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| Adjective that means commanding respect because of old age or dignity. |
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| Adjective that applies to males and females and means childish or juvenile. |
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| Adjective that means dried up or withered. |
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| Adjective that means having reached puberty or the stage of adolescence in which an individual becomes capable of sexual reproduction. |
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| Noun that refers to a widow who holds property or a title that comes from her deceased husband. It can also be used to describe any old woman of high social standing. |
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| Fancy noun that means old age and applies to both genders. |
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| Adjective that means immature or lacking adult experience or youth. |
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| Adjective that means ineffective or outmoded because of advanced age. |
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| Ingenue (accent aigu on first e) |
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| Noun that means a naive or innocent young woman. |
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| Noun which means burning passion or fiery devotion. |
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| Noun for a person who feels extreme passion or devotion, sometimes to the exclusion of almost anything else. |
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| Adjective that describes a particular kind of passion - love or sexual attraction.It is used exclusively towards people. |
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| Adjective that means burning with enthusiasm. |
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| Adjective that means to be possessed by enthusiasm to the point of being irrational. |
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| Adjective that means passion to the point of madness. |
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| Adjective that has a generalized meaning of passion for religion. Someone who is ___________ has an ardent or crusading enthusiasm for something. |
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| Adjective that is characterized by an intense emotion or conviction. People are not ________, but they do things with _________. |
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| Adjective that means unrestrained in emotional expression or gushy. |
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| Adjective that means recklessly determined to do or achieve something. |
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