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Fiske Word Power 10-18

Words for our skirmish friday the 9th

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describes anything reating to cooking or the kitchen
An expert on fine food and drink.
Has very discriminating taste in food and wine, probably over-defined
Excessive eating or drinking
ravenous or excessively hungry
appetizing to taste or smell
eating both animal and vegetable foods
the art or science of good eating
acceptable to taste or flavorful to be eaten
Juicy
Presenting favorable circumstances or a positive outcome
marked by success or producing favorable circumstances
timely benfit, stroke of good luck
turned against or opposing
causing damage, harm, or loss
disasterous mockery
sudden or disastrous outcome
Complete failure
Overwhelming defeat
excessive evil, large size
Stubbornly resistant to authority
to harden
unruly, trouble maker or peevish, cranky
Stubbornly resistant to an authority
Difficult to manage or govern
Aggresively and noisily defiant
Stubbornly uncompromising
Unable to be reformed or corrected
Stubbornly perserving
An opinion the is not proven or unprovable
pleasing set of manners and awareness within a social group
denotes refinements and subtlety in a given situation
Appropriate behavior, fitting the accepted rules of conduct
The codes of accepted behavior in any given situation
A blunder or a awkward social moment
Observation of exiisting social norms
Person with no social sense
A bad disposition
Subtle or slight variation, to sensitivity to those variations
To know what to do
Bold and determined
not discouraged and not disheartened.
Fearlessly brave
fearlessly or recklessly daring
Resist control or be impatient nder restriction
Strength of mind to endure pain or difficulty with courage.
Able to undergo adversity with bold self assurance
Extreme boldness or foolish disregard of danger
Seeks to overthrow popular ideas or institutions
saucy, or impudently bold
Dull, bland and uninteresting, refering to speech or writing
Frugal or penny pinching
Loud, forceful, strong
Grey or white haired and meaning old
acts as a provocative stimulus or catalyst to an action
Spotted or patchy
Delicious or luscious
structual column sculpted in the form of a draped female body
not inherent, or coming from an external force
Great beauty.
Hard work at the task at hand
really difficult or really powerful
endurance (physical or mental) to keep going
painstaking care to details
attention to eery minute detail or point
overly exacting or unneccesarily squemish
diligence or persistance
to hold on to a point, goal or an object
sppedy or cheerful willingness to do something
too eager to apprach something
deterioration of mental faculties that comes with aging
commanding respect due to old age
Childish or juvenille
dried up or withered
Having reached puberty in which an individual becomes capable of sexual reproduction
Old age
immature, or lacking adult experience
ineffective or outdated because of old age
maive or innocent young woman
Burning passion or devotion
extreme passion excluding almost everything else
feelings of love toward a person
hot passion for ideas as well as people
Possessed by enthusiasm to the point of being irrational
passion to the point of madness
pure missionary work
carrying an intnse emotion or conviction
Unrestrained in emotional expression or gushy
recklessly determined to to do or achieve something

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