esculent
adjective: fit to be eaten; edible.
noun: a thing, especially a vegetable, which is fit to be eaten.
from Latin esculentus, from esca ‘food’, from esse ‘eat’.
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vitiate : spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of; destroy or impair the legal validity of
Seen in the New York Times, in a column relating to this story.
When President Donald Trump vitiated scientific facts on Thursday…
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lixiviated (lixiviate) – Verb – To separate (a substance) into soluble and insoluble components through percolation; to leach.
Pynchon – Mason & Dixon
malapert – (archaic) A cheeky, impudent, or saucy person. [from 15th c.]
ridotto – (historical) A public ball, typically a masquerade, popular in the 18th century.
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Iatrogenic : To cause a problem as a consequence of a medical intervention.
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Ark – is an archaic term for chest. While the source link that Wikipedia references is broken, I will accept this as fact from my experience with the King James Bible and Indiana Jones references to “The Ark of the Covenant.”
Wain – is an archaic term for a type of farm wagon. So the last names of Wainwright, Cartwright, and Carter all have something in common.