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avid
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adj 1: (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively
desirous; "avid for adventure"; "an avid ambition to
succeed"; "fierce devouring affection"; "the esurient
eyes of an avid curiosity"; "greedy for fame" [syn:
avid, devouring(a), esurient, greedy]
2: marked by active interest and enthusiasm; "an avid sports
fan" [syn: avid, zealous]
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bovid
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adj 1: of or relating to or belonging to the genus Bos (cattle)
[syn: bovine, bovid]
n 1: hollow-horned ruminants
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fervid
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adj 1: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an
ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a
fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned
appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: ardent,
fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid,
torrid]
2: extremely hot; "the fervent heat...merely communicated a
genial warmth to their half-torpid systems"- Nathaniel
Hawthorne; "set out...when the fervid heat subsides"- Frances
Trollope [syn: fervent, fervid]
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gravid
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adj 1: in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child";
"was great with child" [syn: big(p), enceinte,
expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p),
heavy(p), with child(p)]
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ivied
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adj 1: overgrown with ivy; "Harvard's ivied buildings" [syn:
ivied, ivy-covered]
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livid
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adj 1: anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned
ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak
with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock";
"lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley;
"lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage" [syn:
ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white]
2: (of a light) imparting a deathlike luminosity; "livid
lightning streaked the sky"; "a thousand flambeaux...turned
all at once that deep gloom into a livid and preternatural
day"- E.A.Poe
3: furiously angry; "willful stupidity makes him absolutely
livid"
4: discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin; "beaten
black and blue"; "livid bruises" [syn: black-and-blue,
livid]
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perfervid
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adj 1: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an
ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a
fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned
appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: ardent,
fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid,
torrid]
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vivid
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adj 1: evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial
poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a
lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description" [syn:
graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vivid]
2: having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience; "a
vivid recollection"
3: having striking color; "bright dress"; "brilliant
tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage" [syn: bright,
brilliant, vivid]
4: (of color) having the highest saturation; "vivid green";
"intense blue" [syn: intense, vivid]
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david
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n 1: patron saint of Wales (circa 520-600) [syn: David, Saint
David, St. David]
2: French neoclassical painter who actively supported the French
Revolution (1748-1825) [syn: David, Jacques Louis David]
3: (Old Testament) the 2nd king of the Israelites; as a young
shepherd he fought Goliath (a giant Philistine warrior) and
killed him by hitting him in the head with a stone flung from
a sling; he united Israel with Jerusalem as its capital; many
of the Psalms are attributed to David (circa 1000-962 BC)
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ovid
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n 1: Roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 BC
- AD 17) [syn: Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso]
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pavid
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impavid
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progravid
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