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Insalubrious Heat Levant Adj Unhealthy Climate Location Blame

Word insalubrious
Definition adj. Unhealthy, especially of a climate or location.
Sentence One can blame insalubrious behavior of pigs, exacerbated by the heat in the Levant (though heat in the Levant was not markedly different from that in pig-eating areas farther West).
Source Skin in the Game, Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary

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