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  • 91desire — I. n. 1. Wish, will, aspiration. 2. Longing, craving, hankering, inclination, proclivity, impulse, drawing, appetency, appetite. 3. Sexual love, love, passion. 4. Brute passion, sexual appetite, lust. II. v. a. 1. Wish, crave, covet, want, fancy …

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  • 92hankering — noun I had a sudden hankering for a BLT Syn: longing, yearning, craving, desire, wish, hunger, thirst, urge, ache, lust, appetite, fancy; informal yen, itch; archaic appetency Ant: aversion …

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  • 93appetence — n 1. desire, want, need, yearning, longing, wish, wishfulness; craving, appetite, hunger, taste or thirst for, appetency. 2. drive, instinct, passion, lust, aphrodisia, Both Psychoanal. libido, id; inclination, predilection, penchant,… …

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  • 94appetite — n 1. hunger, thirst, craving, desire, want, need, appetency; voraciousness, ravenousness, edacity, gluttonousness, insatiability. 2. relish, taste, palate, sweet tooth; zest, gusto, partiality, bias, keenness; affinity, liking, affection,… …

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  • 95belly — n 1. abdomen, stomach, Inf. tummy, gut, Sl. breadbasket, Scot, and North Eng. wame; paunch, potbelly, Inf. bay window, Inf. corporation, Sl. pot, Sl. beer belly, Sl. spare tire, Obs. gorbelly; colonic cavity, intestinal cavity, visceral cavity,… …

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  • 96bent — adj 1. crooked, flexed, bowed, twisted, contorted; curved, coiled, circled, curled, spiraled, looped; arched, inflected, vaulted, cambered. 2. determined, insistent, set, resolved, fixed, directed; disposed, predisposed, inclined, prone,,… …

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  • 97desire — v 1. wish for, long for, desiderate, want; yearn for, hope for, care for, pine for, sigh for; hanker after, have a yen for, covet, fancy, have a fancy for; have an eye to, be attracted to, have a mind to, have at heart, be bent upon; be inclined… …

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  • 98habit — n 1. custom, practice, way, fashion, style, mode; procedure, policy, rule; convention, wont, praxis, usage, observance, habitude; consuetude, tradition, Law. prescription, routine, course; conventionality, matter of course, formality, form;… …

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  • 99inclination — n 1. proclivity, propensity, leaning, bent, turn, cast, inclining, Biol. tropism; tendency, tending, bearing, verging, gravitation, drift; proneness, subjectability, aptness, liableness, likeliness, susceptibility, weakness, openness; disposition …

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  • 100leaning — n 1. proclivity, propensity, inclination, bent, turn, cast; tendency, tending, bearing, gravitation, drift; proneness, subjectability, aptness, liableness, likeliness, susceptibility, weakness, openness; disposition, mind set, idiosyncrasy,… …

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