Examples
“Growing populations are straining supplies in parched areas of the U.S.”
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“In fact, the startling abundance of fruit in parched Kandahar was what had first led me to consider beauty products.”
“There have been a few suggestions for using other words - yep, Gryphon, and Time Lord over on the Voyager board, I like the word parched too...hmm.”
“Catty, my liquidity may be best described as parched, or even dessicated.”
“Accustomed on "hikes" to a thirst not surpassed by anything "east of Suez," I never before appreciated the significance of the word "parched" - the "tongue cleaving to the roof of the mouth.”
“Each time the word ice met her eye she recalled the parched lips that had moaned for it, the feverish hands that had clutched it so greedily when she brought it, and she thought if Sandford Berry could only see what she had done for some of the poor souls who "got on her nerves" he'd change his opinion about her efforts to help them being of no avail.”
“You've cheated me!" said Bai with a kind of parched hoarseness, as though her throat had been rubbed raw.”
“Coffee giv 'out an none could be bought so they took okra seeds an' parched 'em good an 'brown an' ground 'em an 'made coffee out'n' em.”
“We had various substitutes, such as parched rye, also okra seed.”
Documenting the American South, or, the American Experience in 19-th Century America
“Heb. haran, i.e., "parched;" or probably from the Accadian charana, meaning "a road.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘parched’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Do you find it funny?
Strange words I come across every now and then.
neornithe, oriel, vitreous, zenith, saunter, ebb, vacillation, arbitrary, lull, nibble, knead, parched and 5 more...
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I am : hungry
Words (adjectives and verbs) for physical hunger, thirst - and the fulfillment of.
hungry, thirsty, famished, starved, ravenous, satiated, sated, full, bloated, parched, gorge, voracious and 2 more...
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jagosaurus's favorites
Words I like mostly because of the way they sound and feel.
ticonderoga, petulance, snark, estimable, chickahominy, feline, gezellig, gneiss, shit, willy-nilly, shelter, coda and 366 more...
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GRE 3500 P
paean, pall, palliate, pallid, palpable, palpitate, paltry, pan, panache, panegyric, pantomime, paraphernalia and 93 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL P
pacifistic, pacify, palatable, palaver, palliate, pallid, palpable, pamper, panacea, pandemic, pandemonium, panegyric and 209 more...
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Reading Random
Got unknown words randomly
delinquency, modicum, dissuade, incendiary, destitute, lachrymose, plight, ruse, empirical, pedantic, demography, giggle and 444 more...
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MsHalston's Words
theoretically, insufferable, apolitico, milquetoast, egregious, aplomb, elan, fraught, flummox, befrocked, moll, molten and 605 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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ash
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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adjectives
haughty, rueful, affable, unctuous, dispassionate, disaffected, glacial, daft, debilitating, mawkish, insipid, victorian and 131 more...
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MY LIST
ABHOR, BIGOT, KINDLE, NOXIOUS, BILK, NUANCE, ENGENDER, BILLOWING, COWER, HARANGUE, REPLETE, ABROGATE and 518 more...
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complicated words
mire, mirth, misapplication, reluctant, aghast, surreptitiously, wares, abashed, leap, dash, peer, tangle and 107 more...
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mkuo's Words
sigh, chum, clandestine, behemoth, paramour, leviathan, dollop, wastrel, pedantic, hankering, warble, lope and 317 more...
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Day 1
GRE word list
ambivalent, innocuous, extant, contentious, enervate, equivocate, unequivocal, erratic, candid, sedulous, alacrity, confound and 58 more...
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set 17
from 81 to 85
hydrophobia, execrate, jostle, brazen, antecedents, profilgate, descry, wily, crass, farce, flout, slough and 63 more...
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