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An acrid remark is mean, bitter, and highly critical of someone.
Aliment is something, usually food, that feeds, nourishes, or supports someone or something else.
An arid landscape is dry and lacking in sufficient rainfall to support much life.
A comestible is something that can be eaten.
Someone who has excellent culinary skills is able to cook food very well.
If you describe something, especially food and drink, as delectable, you mean that it is very pleasant, tasty, or attractive.
Something that is desiccated has had all the water taken out of it; this is a common process used for food in order to preserve it.
If a part of your body distends, it becomes swollen and unnaturally large.
Something insipid is dull, boring, and has no interesting features; for example, insipid food has no taste or little flavor.
Something that is noxious is harmful, extremely unpleasant, and often poisonous.
If you describe something as palatable, such as an idea or suggestion, you believe that people will accept it; palatable food or drink is agreeable to the taste.
Potable water is clean and safe to drink.
A salubrious place or area is pleasant, clean, healthy, and comfortable to live in.
Something that is tantalizing is desirable and exciting; nevertheless, it may be out of reach, perhaps due to being too expensive.
Something is toothsome when it is tasty, attractive, or pleasing in some way; this adjective can apply to food, people, or objects.
Turgid writing or speech is excessively complicated, being filled with too many needlessly difficult words; consequently, such verbiage is boring and difficult to understand.
If you describe something as unsavory, you mean that it is unpleasant or morally unacceptable.
A wizened person is very old, shrunken with age, and has a lot of wrinkles on their skin.
Adj.
succulent
SUK-yuh-luhnt
Context
I love succulent or juicy tomatoes in the summertime—they are great on sandwiches with mayonnaise! Follow that up with a succulent or delicious mango that is perfectly ripe, and you have the perfect lunch. My wife grows so many succulent or mouthwatering foods in the garden that quench my thirst and fill my stomach at the same time.
Quiz:Try again!
How would someone likely describe a succulent dish?
Suck Excellent! I love to suck on an excellent, succulent piece of fruit--so juicy and tasty!
Examples
The bunnies trot over to my yard to sample the succulent clover or nibble on the sprouts that shoot up from sunflower seeds dropped by the birds on my bird feeders and forgotten.
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The Christian Science Monitor
It is not short of attractions, with churches frescoed by students of Giotto and Raphael, acres of lush woodland and Abruzzo’s oldest Sagra della Porchetta, a traditional festival in which locals feast on succulent, slow-cooked pork.
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The Guardian
Later, we would reconvene at the designated meeting point (another porch) and eat our booty, popping the succulent fruits into our mouths, slurping up the juicy flesh, spitting out the seeds and skin. The texture is softer than conventional grapes—they sort of melt in your mouth—and much sweeter.
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NPR
Banana JSSI (Harvesting Juicy Strawberry Tree Fruit) This succulent fruit is just bursting with juice.
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