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  • 11taste — [[t]te͟ɪst[/t]] ♦♦ tastes, tasting, tasted 1) N UNCOUNT Taste is one of the five senses that people have. When you have food or drink in your mouth, your sense of taste makes it possible for you to recognize what it is. ...a keen sense of taste.… …

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  • 12bitter — [[t]bɪ̱tə(r)[/t]] ♦♦♦ bitterest, bitters 1) ADJ GRADED In a bitter argument or conflict, people argue very angrily or fight very fiercely. ...the scene of bitter fighting during the Second World War. ...a bitter attack on the Government s failure …

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  • 13taste — 01. My Mexican friends tell me that British food [tastes] really bland. 02. Would you like a [taste] of my cheesecake? It s delicious. 03. This vegetable sauté is quite [tasty]. Is that ginger you put in it? 04. This spaghetti [tastes] just like… …

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  • 14bitter — 01. This medicine is very [bitter] tasting. 02. Winter in Alaska is long and [bitterly] cold. 03. Her mother is very [bitter] over her divorce. 04. The soccer game was a [bitterly] fought match between two teams that have always hated each other …

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  • 15taste — {{11}}taste (n.) c.1300, act of tasting, from O.Fr. tast (Mod.Fr. tát), from taster (see TASTE (Cf. taste) (v.)). Meaning faculty or sense by which flavor of a thing is discerned is attested from late 14c. Meaning savor, sapidity, flavor is from… …

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  • 16Taste — belongs to our chemical sensing system, or the chemosenses. The complicated process of tasting begins when molecules released by the substances stimulate special cells in the mouth or throat. These special sensory cells transmit messages through… …

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  • 17taste — n 1 Taste, flavor, savor, tang, relish, smack can all mean the property of a substance which makes it perceptible to the gustatory sense. Taste not only is the most inclusive of these terms but it gives no suggestion of a specific character or… …

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  • 18Bitter melon — Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked) …

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  • 19taste — [n1] flavor of some quality aftertaste, aroma, bang*, bitter, drive, ginger, jolt, kick*, oomph*, palatableness, piquancy, punch*, relish, salt, sapidity, sapor, savor, savoriness, smack, sour, sting*, suggestion, sweet, tang*, wallop, zest,… …

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  • 20bitter — 1 adjective 1 ANGRY/UPSET full of angry, jealous, and unhappy feelings because you think you have been badly treated or that unfair things have happened to you: He became bitter and disillusioned as he grew older. (+ about): They all lost their… …

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