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::: dotage - senility; feeblemindedness of old age; Ex. In one's dotage
::: reprehensible - deserving blame; blameworthy; V. reprehend: blame
::: gourmand - epicure; person who takes excessive pleasure in food and drink
::: forebears - (forbears) ancestors
::: cringe - shrink back as if in fear; cower
::: calculated - deliberately planned; likely
::: contiguous - adjacent to; touching upon
::: latch - fastening or lock consisting of a movable bar that fits into a notch; V: close with a latch
::: umbrage - resentment; anger; sense of injury or insult; Ex. take umbrage at his rudeness
::: derision - ridicule; ADJ. derisive; CF. derisory