| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Culinary | describes anything reating to cooking or the kitchen |
| Gourmet | An expert on fine food and drink. |
| Epicurean | Has very discriminating taste in food and wine, probably over-defined |
| Gluttony | Excessive eating or drinking |
| Voracious | ravenous or excessively hungry |
| Savory | appetizing to taste or smell |
| Omnivorous | eating both animal and vegetable foods |
| Gastronomy | the art or science of good eating |
| Palatable | acceptable to taste or flavorful to be eaten |
| Succulent | Juicy |
| Propitious | Presenting favorable circumstances or a positive outcome |
| Auspicious | marked by success or producing favorable circumstances |
| Boon | timely benfit, stroke of good luck |
| Adverse | turned against or opposing |
| Detrimental | causing damage, harm, or loss |
| Travesty | disasterous mockery |
| Debacle | sudden or disastrous outcome |
| Fiasco | Complete failure |
| Rout | Overwhelming defeat |
| Enorminy | excessive evil, large size |
| Recalcitrant | Stubbornly resistant to authority |
| obdurate | to harden |
| Fractious | unruly, trouble maker or peevish, cranky |
| Refractory | Stubbornly resistant to an authority |
| Intractable | Difficult to manage or govern |
| obstreperous | Aggresively and noisily defiant |
| Intrangisent | Stubbornly uncompromising |
| Incorrigible | Unable to be reformed or corrected |
| dogged | Stubbornly perserving |
| Dogmatic | An opinion the is not proven or unprovable |
| Decorum | pleasing set of manners and awareness within a social group |
| Finesse | denotes refinements and subtlety in a given situation |
| Seemly | Appropriate behavior, fitting the accepted rules of conduct |
| Protocol | The codes of accepted behavior in any given situation |
| Gaffe | A blunder or a awkward social moment |
| Propriety | Observation of exiisting social norms |
| Boor | Person with no social sense |
| Churl | A bad disposition |
| Nuance | Subtle or slight variation, to sensitivity to those variations |
| Savior Faire | To know what to do |
| Resolute | Bold and determined |
| undaunted | not discouraged and not disheartened. |
| Intrepid | Fearlessly brave |
| Audacity | fearlessly or recklessly daring |
| Restive | Resist control or be impatient nder restriction |
| Fortitude | Strength of mind to endure pain or difficulty with courage. |
| Brazen | Able to undergo adversity with bold self assurance |
| Termerity | Extreme boldness or foolish disregard of danger |
| Iconoclastic | Seeks to overthrow popular ideas or institutions |
| Cheeky | saucy, or impudently bold |
| jejune | Dull, bland and uninteresting, refering to speech or writing |
| Niggardly | Frugal or penny pinching |
| Forte | Loud, forceful, strong |
| Hoary | Grey or white haired and meaning old |
| Gadfly | acts as a provocative stimulus or catalyst to an action |
| Piebald | Spotted or patchy |
| Toothsome | Delicious or luscious |
| Carytid | structual column sculpted in the form of a draped female body |
| Adventitious | not inherent, or coming from an external force |
| pulchritude | Great beauty. |
| Sedulous | Hard work at the task at hand |
| Herculean | really difficult or really powerful |
| Stamina | endurance (physical or mental) to keep going |
| Meticulous | painstaking care to details |
| Punctilious | attention to eery minute detail or point |
| Fastidious | overly exacting or unneccesarily squemish |
| Assiduous | diligence or persistance |
| Tenacious | to hold on to a point, goal or an object |
| Alacrity | sppedy or cheerful willingness to do something |
| Frenetic | too eager to apprach something |
| Dotage | deterioration of mental faculties that comes with aging |
| Vernerable | commanding respect due to old age |
| Puerile | Childish or juvenille |
| Wizened | dried up or withered |
| Pubescent | Having reached puberty in which an individual becomes capable of sexual reproduction |
| Senecence | Old age |
| Callow | immature, or lacking adult experience |
| Superannuated | ineffective or outdated because of old age |
| Ingenue | maive or innocent young woman |
| Ardor | Burning passion or devotion |
| Zealot | extreme passion excluding almost everything else |
| Amorous | feelings of love toward a person |
| Fervent | hot passion for ideas as well as people |
| Fanatical | Possessed by enthusiasm to the point of being irrational |
| Manic | passion to the point of madness |
| Evangelical | pure missionary work |
| Vehement | carrying an intnse emotion or conviction |
| Effusive | Unrestrained in emotional expression or gushy |
| Hell-bent | recklessly determined to to do or achieve something |
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