| alkaluria | (noun) a condition in which the urine (which is normally slightly acidic) is alkaline | Synonyms: alkalinuria |
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| alluring | (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: beguiling, enticing, tempting |
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| lurid | (adjective) shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke | - |
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| (adjective) ghastly pale | - |
| (adjective) glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism | Synonyms: shocking |
| (adjective) horrible in fierceness or savagery | - |
| luridly | (adverb) in a lurid manner | - |
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| luridness | (noun) the quality of being ghastly | Synonyms: ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness |
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| (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: achromasia, lividity, lividness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness |
| (noun) the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes | Synonyms: sensationalism |
| silurid | (noun) Old World freshwater catfishes having naked skin and a long anal fin more or less merged with the eellike caudal fin | Synonyms: silurid fish |
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| tellurian | (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: telluric, terrene, terrestrial |
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| (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, earthman, worldling |
| telluric | (adjective) of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air | Synonyms: tellurian, terrene, terrestrial |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or containing the chemical element tellurium | - |
| telluride | (noun) any binary compound of tellurium with other more electropositive elements | - |
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| tellurium | (noun) a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold | Synonyms: atomic number 52, Te |
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