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torrid
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torrid as in:  a torrid love affair

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They had a torrid love affair.
torrid = passionate
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    All of her affairs start torrid, but are short-lived.
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    In this she was successful; when the candle she chewed made contact with the torrid images she evoked, the candle began to burn.  (source)
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    On the Sabbath, Friday nights, it was a thrill for me to pretend I was going downstairs to the kitchen and then creep into the store to pick up the torrid love notes he slipped under the door.  (source)
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    Where are the torrid fantasies?  (source)
    torrid = passionate
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    And then after a horrendous dry spell, I met Katherine XVI on the roof deck of a hotel in Newark, New Jersey, during an Academic Decathlon tournament in October of my junior year, and we had about as wild and torrid an affair as you can possibly have over the course of fourteen hours at an Academic Decathlon tournament, which is to say that at one point we had to kick her three roommates out of her hotel room so we could make out properly, but then even after I emerged from the…  (source)
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    She wanted this last weekend to be everything summer could be…hot, hazy, torrid.  (source)
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    "If you must know," I replied, deadpan, "for the past six months I've been having this torrid affair with Warren Jacobi."  (source)
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    Miri preferred her movies torrid and dark.  (source)
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    I used to have a torrid crush on the Partridge girl from LA.  (source)
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    Some lasted years; others were no more than a delightful afternoon. But all were torrid, mind you.  (source)
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    He had detected the latent sensuality, which unfolded under his delicate sense of her nature's requirements like a torpid, torrid, sensitive blossom.  (source)
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    The Pagan leopards—the unrecking and unworshipping things, that live; and seek, and give no reasons for the torrid life they feel!  (source)
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    Most of those nights they'd spent engaged in torrid activities, like having contests to see who could take the longest to eat a single Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.  (source)
    torrid = passionate (said ironically)
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torrid as in:  the torrid noonday sun

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    We traveled by night, rested during the torrid days.
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    It was a foul day, torrid and hazy; hotter than the hinges of Hades, as Walter would say...  (source)
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    The few times my reminiscing carried me back to that torrid afternoon, what I remembered first was the belt.  (source)
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    It's even hotter up here, torrid, and the smell of perspiration makes him light-headed.  (source)
    torrid = very hot
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    Sitting on the tremendous rock in the torrid sun, Roger received this news as an illumination.  (source)
    torrid = hot
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    Beer had never been my favorite, but it tasted fine, ice-cold, on such a torrid day.  (source)
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    We pushed our bed under the lattice window, hoping to catch a cool breeze, but there was none, just torrid stillness.  (source)
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    That darkness in which resolutions have to be made--it isn't merely local; it's the same darkness that exists in the fiercest clearnesses of torrid Messina.  (source)
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    The torrid cracks of the furnace gleamed in the crimson darkness and he heard the throaty undertone of the draft devouring the air.  (source)
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    But in that confident prophecy Chang was wrong, for less than a month after his arrival at Shangri-La Conway received a second summons to that torrid upper room.  (source)
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    The ashes under the grate were lit by the fire vertically, like a torrid waste.  (source)
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    There was a slow, torrid beat of her pulse.  (source)
    torrid = hot (possibly troubled)
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    He had read the great poets, more characteristic of their race than the poets of other lands; for they seemed to have drawn their inspiration not at all from the general currents of the world's literature but directly from the torrid, scented plains and the bleak mountains of their country.  (source)
    torrid = hot
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torrid as in:  at a torrid pace

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    Her torrid schedule left little time for personal life.
    torrid = hurried
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    I felt traumatized, embarrassed, trapped in my own emotionally torrid world.  (source)
    torrid = full of difficulty
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    As it was, he could only stare into Teeleh's torrid eyes and fight his own terror.  (source)
    torrid = terrible (filled with difficulty)
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    Nestor had taken six wickets for twenty-five runs in a torrid spell of pace bowling, and four of those were by catches I took standing well behind the wicket.  (source)
    torrid = fast or hurried
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    Mr. Bagnet is an exartilleryman, tall and upright, with shaggy eyebrows and whiskers like the fibres of a coco-nut, not a hair upon his head, and a torrid complexion.  (source)
    torrid = troubled
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