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::: materialism - preoccupation with physical comforts and things; excessive regard for worldly concerns (rather than spiritual matters)
::: fluency - smoothness of speech; ADJ. fluent
::: viand - food; CF. live
::: glacial - like a glacier; of an ice age; extremely cold; Ex. glacial epoch; CF. iceberg
::: commandeer - take (private property) for military use without needing permission or giving payment; draft for military purposes
::: errant - wandering (esp. in search of adventure); straying from proper moral standards; Ex. knight-errant
::: thresh - beat (cereal plants) with a machine or flail to separate the grains from the straw
::: aphorism - pithy maxim or saying; ADJ. aphoristic
::: rankle - irritate; fester; annoy
::: tertiary - third in order or rank