hankering

  • 121hanker — verb ADVERB ▪ secretly ▪ always ▪ still PREPOSITION ▪ after ▪ She s always hankering after excitement …

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  • 122One-Eyed Jacks — (1961)    This film began as a STANLEY KUBRICK project. MARLON BRANDO had been hankering to make a Western since the mid 1950s, encompassing “the beautiful hills and the wild life of the old West,” according to JOHN BAXTER’s biography. By the… …

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  • 123aching — Synonyms and related words: Heimweh, ache, achy, afflictive, algetic, angina, backache, bellyache, blow, cephalalgia, chilblains, chill, chilliness, chilling, cold creeps, cold shivers, colic, collywobbles, cramp, creeps, cryopathy, cut,… …

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  • 124appetite — Synonyms and related words: Cyrenaic hedonism, Cyrenaicism, alacrity, an universal wolf, animation, animus, anxiety, anxiousness, appetence, appetency, appetition, appetitiveness, avidity, avidness, bent, bias, breathless impatience, canine… …

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  • 125aspiration — Synonyms and related words: Aqua Lung, aim, allophone, alveolar, ambition, ambitiousness, animus, apico alveolar, apico dental, articulation, artificial respiration, assimilation, assumption, assurance, assured faith, asthmatic wheeze, basis,… …

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  • 126desire — Synonyms and related words: Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, address, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, aim, aim at, ambition, andromania, animus, aphrodisia, appeal, appetence, appetency, appetite, appetition, application, apply …

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  • 127eager — Synonyms and related words: accordant, acquiescent, acquisitive, affirmative, agape, agog, agreeable, agreeing, alacritous, all agog, ambitious, amenable, animated, anticipant, anticipating, anticipative, anticipatory, antsy, antsy pantsy,… …

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  • 128fancy — Synonyms and related words: Amor, Babylonian, Byzantine, Christian love, Corinthian, Daedalian, Eros, Platonic love, a bit much, abandoned, account as, adept, admiration, adoration, adorned, adroit, affection, affinity, agape, aim at, ambitious,… …

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