Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for February 27, 2017
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Transcript:
Katy: How's the coffee reviewing going? Adam: Good! I'm working on jazzing up my descriptions. See what you think. Katy: "Like a lone lion stalking the serengeti, this virile roast goes for the jugular..." Adam: Too much? Laura: "Then slakes its bloodlust, ignoring your desperate cries for..."
slake |sleɪk|
verb [ with obj. ]
1 quench or satisfy (one’s thirst): slake your thirst with some lemonade.
• satisfy (desires): restaurants worked to slake the Italian obsession with food.
2 combine (quicklime) with water to produce calcium hydroxide.
ORIGIN
Old English slacian ‘become less eager,’ also ‘slacken,’ from the adjective slæc ‘slack’; compare with Dutch slaken ‘diminish, relax.’
(The above courtesy of the New Oxford American Dictionary. )