Bacchanalia & Saturnalia

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.





　

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.

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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