Bacchanal




bacchanal 

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–noun 
1. a follower of Bacchus.
2. a drunken reveler.
3. an occasion of drunken revelry; orgy; bacchanalia.

–adjective 
4. pertaining to Bacchus; bacchanalian

Synonyms:
3. saturnalia, debauch, spree, carousal.


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Clinton is both presiding icon and structuring absence in Shattered Glass. A true tale of deception and betrayal at The New Republic, Billy Ray's debut feature revisits the case of Stephen Glass, the promising young writer who, in the late '90s, made a name for himself with wildly improbable and most unwonkish yarns about Young Republican bacchanals and teenage hackers. 

wonk
–noun Slang. 
1. a student who spends much time studying and has little or no social life; grind.
2. a stupid, boring, or unattractive person.
3. a person who studies a subject or issue in an excessively assiduous and thorough manner: a policy wonk.  


bodega
patina
cantina
All El Mariachi wants is a job, which leads him to the [cantina] of the foxy Domino, a beauty who takes a shine to the kid but also happens to be a favorite of murderous Moco.
Steve Buscemi as the cantina [patron] who sets up the story,

sobriety
I wouldn't get too carried away with this sobriety thing.
ethanol
Just finished the ethanol susidies.
Besot

nymphomania 
nymph 
naiad
undine water
By marrying a [man], an undine could acquire a mortal soul.
sylph air
but directs her sylph-[like] affections in an unexpected direction. 
salamander fire
"a salamander that... lives in the midst of [flames]" (Addison). 
gnome earth
[ugly] enough to be king of the gnomes.
Innuendo








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