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Alimentary (adj)

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Relating to food and nourishment

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Abstemious (adj)

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Holding back from eating or drinking too much

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Antediluvian (adj)

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Very, very, old; antiquated

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Antiquated (adj)

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Very old and no longer in use; obsolete

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Antiquity (n)

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Ancient times

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Chary (adj)

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Cautious; wary

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Clandestine (adj)

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Hidden, secret, concealed

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Conscientious (adj)

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Relating to doing what one knows is right; aware

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Contemporary (adj)

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Modern, new; relating to the same time period

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Covert (adj)

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Secret, hidden

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Culinary (adj)

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Having to do with cooking, preparing meals

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Delectable (adj)

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Delicious

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Emaciated (adj)

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Very thin due to lack of adequate food

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Epicurean (adj)

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Having to do with relishing the pleasure of eating and drinking

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Evanescent (adj)

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Vanishing quickly; short-lived

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Exacting (adj)

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Requiring a great deal of care or effort; painstaking

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Fleeting (adj)

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Short-lived

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Furtive (adj)

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Sneaky

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Gingerly (adj)

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Very carefully

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Glutton (n)

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One who overindulges in food and drink

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Needful (adj)

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Paying careful attention to

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Itinerant (adj)

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Wandering about; tending to move around, travel

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Inception (n)

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The start, the beginning of something

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Inconspicuous (adj)

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Hardly noticeable

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Innovation (n)

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Something new

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Nomadic (adj)

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Wandering

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Novel (adj)

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New

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Obsolete (adj)

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Old; outdated, no longer in use

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Palatable (adj)

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Pleasing to the taste buds

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Peripatetic (adj)

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Moving or walking about; itinerant

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Ravenous (adj)

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Very hungry

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Relic (n)

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A custom or object that has been around for a very long time

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Savory (adj)

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Tasty or good smelling

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Transitory (adj)

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Fleeting; short-lived

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Volatile (adj)

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Explosive or changing very quickly

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Unprecedented (adj)

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Novel; unparalleled

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Voracious (adj)

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Greedy; gluttonous; ravenous; insatiable

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Wary (adj)

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Cautious, careful

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